Side-by-side reading of PET and CT scans in oncology: Which patients might profit from integrated PET/CT?

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1456-1461

  Reinartz, Patrick ^a   Wieres, Franz Josef ^a   Schneider, Wolfram ^a   Schur, Alexander ^a   Buell, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Oncology; PET CT; Positron emission tomography; Visual image fusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 9944244131     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-004-1593-y     Document Type: Article

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