The hope and hype of multimodality imaging contrast agents

Nanomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 945-948

  Pagel, Mark D ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

contrast agents; diagnostic convenience; diagnostic duplication; diagnostic synergy; multimodality imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052296284     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.63     Document Type: Review

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