NEC: Some coincidences are more equivalent than others

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1767-1768

  Badawi, Ramsey D ^b   Dahlbom, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 33644831926     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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