Gallium-68 Ventilation/Perfusion PET-CT and CT Pulmonary Angiography for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis: An Interobserver Agreement Study
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Overuse and underuse of pulmonary CT angiography in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
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Zhonghua Sun1* and Jing Lei2 1Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia 2Department of Medical Imaging, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan, 650032, China *Author for correspondence: Tel: +61892667509 Fax: +61892662377 E-mail: [email protected] Submitted: August 18, 2017 Accepted: September 13, 2017 Publi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2296-858X
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2020.599901