X-Ray Stereotactic Lesion Localization in Conjunction with Dedicated Scintimammography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1636-1642

  Moré, Mitali J ^a   Narayanan, Deepa ^a   Goodale, Patricia J ^a   Majewski, Stan ^b   Welch, Benjamin ^b   Wojcik, Randolph ^b   Williams, Mark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Multimodality; Scintimammography; Stereotactic localization; Technetium 99m sestamibi uptake

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MULTIMODALITY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142031173     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817303     Document Type: Article

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