Small field of view scintimammography gamma camera integrated to a stereotactic core biopsy digital x-ray system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2256-2261

  Weisenberger, A G ^a   Barbosa, F ^a   Green, T D ^b   Hoefer, R ^c   Keppel, C ^a,b   Kross, B ^a   Majewski, S ^a   Popov, V ^a   Wojcik, R ^a   Wymer, D C ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Riverside Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray detectors; Scintimammography; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CAMERAS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; X RAYS;

SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY GAMMA CAMERA; STEREOTACTIC CORE BIOPSY DIGITAL X-RAY SYSTEM;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 0036816605     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803778     Document Type: Article

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