Functional breast imaging using the single photon technique

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 609-611

  Khalkhali, I ^a   Itti, E ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer diagnosis; Breast imaging; Scintimammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036308147     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200207000-00003     Document Type: Article

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