Single tube gamma camera for scintimammography

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3 B, 1997, Pages 1651-1654

  Pani, Roberto ^a   Scopinaro, Francesco ^a   Pellegrini, Rosanna ^a   Soluri, Alessandro ^b   Pergola, Andrea ^a   De Vincentis, Giuseppe ^b   Ierardi, Maria ^a   Weinberg, Irving Norman ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c PEM Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma camera; Position sensitive detector; Scintimammography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENERGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030912312     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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