Performance of a small CdTe gamma camera for radioguided surgery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4508, Issue , 2001, Pages 74-87

  Tsuchimochi, Makoto ^a   Sakahara, Harumi ^b   Hayama, Kazuhide ^a   Funaki, Minoru ^c   Shirahata, Takashi ^c   Orskaug, Terje ^d   Maehlum, Gunnar ^d   Yoshioka, Koki ^d   Nygard, Einar ^d  

^a NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Acrorad ^*  (Japan)

^d Integrated Detector and Electronics   (Norway)

Author keywords

CdTe; Gamma camera; Radioguided surgery; Semiconductor; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BIOPSY; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION; TUMORS;

RADIOGUIDED SURGERY;

SURGERY;

EID: 0035764801     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450775     Document Type: Article

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