The importance of physics to progress in medical treatment

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9825, 2012, Pages 1534-1543

  Melzer, Andreas ^a   Cochran, Sandy ^a   Prentice, Paul ^a   MacDonald, Michael P ^a   Wang, Zhigang ^a   Cuschieri, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICS; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELESCOPE; THERAPY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84859897757     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60428-0     Document Type: Review

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