PET/CT scanner instrumentation, challenges, and solutions

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1017-1032

  Alessio, Adam M ^a   Kinahan, Paul E ^a   Cheng, Phillip M ^a   Vesselle, Hubert ^a   Karp, Joel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 5544328194     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2004.08.001     Document Type: Review

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