Spect/ct imaging using a spiral ct scanner for anatomical localization: impact on diagnostic accuracy and reporter confidence in clinical practice

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 977-987

  Roach, Paul J ^a   Schembri, Geoffrey P ^a   Ho Shon, Ivan A ^a   Bailey, Elizabeth A ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hybrid imaging; Image fusion; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; (3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; ETIDRONIC ACID TC 99M; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARATHYROID GLAND; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFECTION; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750727030     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mnm.0000243372.26507.e7     Document Type: Article

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