Impact of obesity on medical imaging and image-guided intervention

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 433-440

  Uppot, Raul N ^a   Sahani, Dushvant V ^a   Hahn, Peter F ^a   Gervais, Debra ^a   Mueller, Peter R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Body imaging; Interventional radiology; Obesity; Radiology practice; Technologists

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 33846471901     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.0409     Document Type: Review

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