Whole-Body Imaging with MRI or PET/CT: The Future for Single-Modality Imaging in Oncology?

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3248-3249

  Blomqvist, Lennart ^a   Torkzad, Michael R ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY AUTORADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0347064285     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.24.3248     Document Type: Editorial

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