A 3D gantry single photon emission tomograph with hemispherical coverage for dedicated breast imaging

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

Volumn 497, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-167

  Tornai, Martin P ^a,b   Bowsher, James E ^a   Archer, Caryl N ^a,b   Peter, Jörg ^c   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^d   Patt, Bradley E ^d   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d Gamma Medica Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma camera; Iterative reconstruction; Position sensitive; Scintimammography; SPECT; Tomography

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST IMAGING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037457873     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01906-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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