PET-MRI: Challenges and new directions

Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-5

  Daftary, Aditya ^a  

^a Innovision Imaging Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIODE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 77953392587     PISSN: 09723919     EISSN: 09740244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.63590     Document Type: Note

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