Interpretation and Reporting of Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomographic Scans

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 283-290

  Agress Jr , Harry ^a   Wong, Terence Z ^b   Shreve, Paul ^c  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PET Medical Imaging Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49049102068     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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