Improved scintimammography using a high-resolution camera mounted on an upright mammography gantry

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

Volumn 497, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-8

  Itti, Emmanuel ^a   Patt, Bradley E ^b   Diggles, Linda E ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence ^b   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^b   Mishkin, Fred S ^a   Khalkhali, Iraj ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

99mTc sestamibi; Breast cancer; Mini camera; Scintimammography; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037457975     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01885-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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