Impact of scatter correction in planar scintimammography: A phantom study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1590-1596

  Buvat, Irène ^a   De Sousa, Marie Carmen ^b   Di Paola, Mireille ^b   Ricard, Marcel ^b   Lumbroso, Jean ^b   Aubert, Bernard ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Quantitation; Receiver operating curve analysis; Scatter correction; Scintimammography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCINTIGRAPHY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031677805     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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