Scenes from the past: MR imaging versus CT of ancient Peruvian and Egyptian mummified tissues

Radiographics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 291-296

  Öhrström, Lena Maria ^a   von Waldburg, Hendrik ^a   Speier, Peter ^b   Bock, Michael ^c,d   Suri, Roland Erwin ^a   Rühli, Frank Jakobus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b German Cancer Research Centre ^*

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EGYPT; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PERU;

EGYPT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUMMIES; PERU; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872533631     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.331125711     Document Type: Article

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