Advances in multimodality molecular imaging

Journal of Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 122-128

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   Prasad, Rameshwar ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Multimodality imaging; PET; PET CT; PET MR

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER METASTASIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOACTIVITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; X RAY;

EID: 68849097549     PISSN: 09716203     EISSN: 19983913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.54844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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