Evaluation of hand-held gamma camera with 1-mm NaI(Tl) pixels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4786, Issue , 2002, Pages 103-113

  Yamaguchi, Yuko ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a   Patt, Bradley E ^a   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Aarsvold, John N ^b   Mintzer, Robert A ^b   Alazraki, Naomi P ^b   Greene, Carmen M ^c  

^a Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer staging; Gamma probe; Lymph node scintigraphy; Scintillation camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOLOGY; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER STAGING; GAMMA PROBE; HANDHELD GAMMA CAMERA; LYMPH NODE SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA;

GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036986783     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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