PET/CT versus body coil PET/MRI: How low can you go?

Insights into Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 481-490

  Appenzeller, P ^a   Mader, C ^a   Huellner, M W ^a   Schmidt, D ^a   Schmid, D ^a   Boss, A ^a   von Schulthess, G ^a   Veit Haibach, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body coil MRI; Cancer imaging; Diagnostic accuracy; Lesion detection; PET CT; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881051059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18694101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13244-013-0247-7     Document Type: Article

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