Digital vs. analog PET/CT: intra-subject comparison of the SUVmax in target lesions and reference regions

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Tập 46 Số 8 - Trang 1745-1750 - 2019
Francisco Fuentes-Ocampo1, Diego Alfonso López-Mora1, Albert Flotats1, Gabriela Paillahueque2, Valle Camacho1, Joan Duch1, A. Fernández1, Arnau Domenech1, Montserrat Estorch1, Ignasi Carrió1
1Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital Clínico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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