Multimodality imaging of structure and function

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Townsend, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL USE; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL DEVICES; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; CAPROMAB PENDETIDE IN 111; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; IODINE 131; IODOCHOLESTEROL I 131; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; METAL IMPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39049090333     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/R01     Document Type: Review

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