Tumor SNR analysis in scintimammography by dedicated high contrast imager

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1318-1322

  Cinti, Maria Nerina ^a   Pani, Roberto ^a   Pellegrini, Rosanna ^a   Bonifazzi, Claudio ^b   Scafè, Raffaele ^c   De Vincentis, Giuseppe ^a   Garibaldi, Franco ^d   Cusanno, Francesco ^d   Campanini, Renato ^e   Lanconelli, Nico ^e   Riccardi, Alessandro ^e   Del Guerra, Alberto ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

BREAST; GAMMA CAMERA; PIXELLATED DETECTOR; PIXELLATED SCINTILLATION ARRAY; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035555242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817345     Document Type: Article

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