Integrating imaging modalities: What makes sense from a workflow perspective?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 980-990

  Von Schulthess, Gustav K ^a   Burger, Cyrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Hybrid imaging; Imaging system integration; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952095948     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-009-1378-4     Document Type: Article

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