Transmission Imaging with a Compact Gamma Camera: Initial Results for Mammotomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1597-1601

  Tornai, Martin P ^a   Archer, Caryl N ^a   Bowsher, James E ^a   McKinley, Randolph L ^a   Jaszczak, Ronald J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAYS;

GAMMA CAMERAS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142148014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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