Multimodal Imaging and Hybrid Scanners
Year: 2007
Type: editorial
Abstract: Copyright © 2007 Haim Azhari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There is an old tale of three blind men who were brought to the zoo for the first time and allowed to touch the elephant. On their way home, they shared this exciting experience. “An elephant is a long, flexible, and cylindrical creature, ” said the man who had touched the elephant’s trunk. “No! It is a thin and flat creature, ” said the man who had touched the elephant’s ear. “No, no! An elephant is rough and rigid like a tree stem, ” disagreed the third person who had touched the elephant’s leg. And the truth is that all three men were right! When trying to see the invisible with our medical imaging systems, we are much like those three blind men. With each imaging modality, we shed some light on a different aspect of the general physiological picture. Although in some
DOI: 10.1155/2007/45353
Authors: Haim Azhari, Robert R. Edelman, David Townsend
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,000
OpenAlex ID: W2064412569