Tomographic imaging in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: Still, we do not know [3]

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2119-2120

  De Geeter, Frank W ^a  

^a Saint John's General Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; TECHNETIUM 99M; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AEROSOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE PERFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 33644876363     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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