Development and evaluation of a PDA-based teleradiology terminal in thyroid nodule diagnosis

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 232-236

  Ninos, Konstantinos ^a   Spiros, Kostopoulos ^a   Glotsos, Dimitris ^a   Georgiadis, Pantelis ^b   Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos ^c   Dimitropoulos, Nikolaos ^d   Kalatzis, Ioannis ^a   Cavouras, Dionisis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Echonet   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCOMPUTER; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELERADIOLOGY; THYROID NODULE;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELERADIOLOGY; THYROID NODULE;

EID: 77954881805     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jtt.2010.090512     Document Type: Article

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