Dose reduction in pediatric hybrid and planar imaging

Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-388

  Gelfand, M J ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic imaging; Diagnostic imaging, utilization; Positron emission tomography, adverse effects

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; DIGLYCINE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATTENUATION; BODY MASS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RENOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CHILD; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650657337     PISSN: 18244785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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