Trends in nuclear medicine in developing countries

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Dondi, Maurizio ^a   Kashyap, Ravi ^a   Paez, Diana ^a   Pascual, Thomas ^a   Zaknun, John ^a   Bastos, Fernando Mut ^a   Pynda, Yaroslav ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Databases; PET; SPECT; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREND STUDY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 83755225158     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.089193     Document Type: Review

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