General principles of PET/CT and autonomic innervation of the heart including kinetics and software

Autonomic Innervation of the Heart: Role of Molecular Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 161-185

  Nekolla, Stephan G ^a   Rischpler, Christoph ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; POSITRONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CARDIAC IMAGING; IMAGING AGENT; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84943427303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45074-1_8     Document Type: Chapter

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