A novel application specific emission tomograph (ASET) for breast imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1161-1165

  Tornai, Martin P ^a   Bowsher, James E ^a   Archer, Caryl N ^a   Peter, Jörg ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a   Patt, Bradley E ^a   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC TORSO PHANTOM; APPLICATION SPECIFIC EMISSION TOMOGRAPH; BREAST IMAGING; EULER ANGLES; GAMMA CAMERA; ORDERED SUBSETS EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PARALLEL BEAM COLLIMATION; POLAR GONIOMETRIC CRADLE; RADIUS OF ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035552787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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