PET and PET/CT reports: Observations from the National Oncologic PET Registry

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-163

  Coleman, R Edward ^a   Hillner, Bruce E ^b   Shields, Anthony F ^c   Duan, Fenghai ^d   Merlino, Denise A ^e   Hanna, Lucy G ^d   Stine, Sharon Hartson ^f   Siegel, Barry A ^g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Society of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

^f AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributes; Billing; Cancer; Coding; Compliance; Management; Positron emission tomography; Registry; Reports

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONSENSUS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75149126126     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.066399     Document Type: Article

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