Reduced acquisition times in whole body bone scintigraphy using a noise-reducing Pixon®-algorithm—a qualitative evaluation study
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عنوان ژورنال: EJNMMI Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2191-219X
DOI: 10.1186/s13550-015-0127-x