Informatics in radiology: Efficiency metrics for imaging device productivity

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 603-616

  Hu, Mengqi ^a   Pavlicek, William ^b   Liu, Patrick T ^b   Zhang, Muhong ^a   Langer, Steve G ^c   Wang, Shanshan ^a   Place, Vicki ^b   Miranda, Rafael ^b   Wu, Teresa Tong ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953793121     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.312105714     Document Type: Article

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