Evaluation of breast tumor detectability with two dedicated, compact scintillation cameras

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 794-802

  McElroy, D P ^a,b   Hoffman, E J ^a,b   MacDonald, L ^a,c   Patt, B E ^a,c   Iwanczyk, J S ^a,c   Yamaguchi, Y ^c   Levin, C S ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical nuclear imaging; Cancer; Image region analysis; Object detection; Position sensitive photomultiplier tube (PSPMT); Scintillation detectors; Scintimammography

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; IMAGE REGION ANALYSIS; SCINTILLATION CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; CARCINOGENS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036624549     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039565     Document Type: Article

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