PET instrumentation

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1003-1016

  Surti, Suleman ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5444255793     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2004.08.011     Document Type: Review

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