MR-PET opens new horizons in neuroimaging

Future Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 807-815

  Herzog, Hans ^a   Langen, Karl Josef ^a   Kaffanke, Joachim ^a   Weirich, Christoph ^a   Neuner, Irene ^a,b   Stoffels, Gabriele ^a   Kops, Elena Rota ^a   Scheins, Jürgen ^a   Tellmann, Lutz ^a   Shah, Nadim Jon ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hybrid imaging; MR PET; MRI; multimodality; PET; PET MRI; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUOROETHYLTYROSINE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78650266259     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.10.59     Document Type: Article

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