The potential for low-dose functional studies in maternal-fetal medicine using PET/MR imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2016-2017

  Jones, Terry ^a   Budinger, Thomas F ^a  

^a PET Research Advisory Company   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; OXYGEN 15;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LETTER; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME OF FLIGHT IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; SCINTISCANNING; PROCEDURES;

FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTHERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84891689660     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.123919     Document Type: Letter

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