Guidelines for the use of PET-CT in children.

نویسندگان

  • Sally F Barrington
  • Joanna Begent
  • Thomas Lynch
  • Paul Schleyer
  • Lorenzo Biassoni
  • William Ramsden
  • Thomas Kane
  • Sara Stoneham
  • Margaret Brooks
  • Sharon F Hain
چکیده

Division of Imaging, Kings College, PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital, Guys’ and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust, London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, City and Royal Victoria Hospitals Belfast, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK Correspondence to Dr Sally F. Barrington, MBBS, MSc, FRCP, MD, Division of Imaging, Kings College, PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital and Guys’ and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust, London, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Nuclear medicine communications

دوره 29 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008