Current Trends in PET and Combined (PET/CT and PET/MR) Systems Design

PET Clinics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-123

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Alavi, Abass ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 46849087258     PISSN: 15568598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2007.10.004     Document Type: Review

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