Dedicated PET scanners for breast imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2463-2480

  Freifelder, Richard ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AIR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031471309     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/12/012     Document Type: Article

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