Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 348-353 , September 2009

Multimodality Imaging: Beyond PET/CT and SPECT/CT

  • Simon R. Cherry, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Simon R. Cherry, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging, University of California–Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616

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doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.03.001

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 348-353 , September 2009

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