Principles of nuclear medicine imaging modalities

Principles and Advanced Methods in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-98

  Zuckier, Lionel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE IMAGING; PHOTON IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; WIDE SELECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84969590413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812814807_0004     Document Type: Chapter

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