Enhancing Lung Scintigraphy With Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 441-449

  Roach, Paul J ^a   Bailey, Dale L ^a   Harris, Benjamin E ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALLERGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 52949142322     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.06.002     Document Type: Review

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