Clinical Radiology
Volume 61, Issue 12 , Pages 1010-1015 , December 2006

Improving the diagnostic performance of lung scintigraphy in suspected pulmonary embolic disease

  • F.V. Gleeson

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    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: F.V. Gleeson, Department of Radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK. Tel.: +44 1865225945; fax: +44 1865225946.
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  • S. Turner
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  • A.F. Scarsbrook

Received 30 December 2005 ,Revised 28 April 2006 ,Accepted 3 May 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.05.017

Clinical Radiology
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