Preliminary results for positron emission mammography: Real-time functional breast imaging in a conventional mammography gantry

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 804-806

  Weinberg, Irving ^a,d   Majewski, Stan ^b   Weisenberger, Andrew ^b   Markowitz, Allen ^a   Aloj, Luigi ^a   Majewski, Lukasz ^a   Danforth, David ^a   Mulshine, James ^a   Cowan, Kenneth ^a   Zujewski, Joanne ^a   Chow, Catherine ^a   Jones, Elizabeth ^a   Chang, Victoria ^a   Berg, Wendie ^c   Frank, Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d PEM Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Fluorine 18 2 deoxy 2 fluoro D glucose; Mammography; Positron

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHANTOM; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029938129     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00843710     Document Type: Article

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