Mammotomography with pinhole incomplete circular orbit SPECT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 583-593

  Tornai, Martin P ^a,b   Bowsher, James E ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a,b   Pieper, Brett C ^a,b   Greer, Kim L ^a   Hardenbergh, Patricia H ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast scintigraphy; Mammotomography; Pinhole incomplete circular orbit; Scintimammography; SPECT

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN 184; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM 238; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2 BIS(BIS(2 ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M 1,2-BIS(BIS(2-ETHOXYETHYL)PHOSPHINO)ETHANE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BREAST; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENERGY; EVALUATION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT; NIPPLE; PATIENT; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PINHOLE INCOMPLETE CIRCULAR ORBIT SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SAMPLING; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037978002     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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