Attenuation compensation for breast tissue in combined CT/SPECT devices dedicated to mammography

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 497, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 150-156

  Gombia, Mirko ^a,b   Tartari, A ^b,c   Gambaccini, M ^b,c   Di Domenico, G ^b,c   Bollini, D ^a,b   Del Guerra, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Breast tissue modeling; Combined CT SPECT devices; Computed tomography; Medical imaging; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE;

BREAST TISSUES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037457862     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01905-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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