Results of preliminary clinical trials of the positron emission mammography system PEM-I: A dedicated breast imaging system producing glucose metabolic images using FDG

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1851-1858

  Murthy, K ^a   Aznar, M ^a   Thompson, C J ^a   Loutfi, A ^a   Lisbona, R ^a   Gagnon, J H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; FDG; Metabolic imaging; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033763260     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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