Gamma Cameras for Intraoperative Localization of Sentinel Nodes: Technical Requirements Identified through Operating Room Experience

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1172-1176

  Aarsvold, John N ^a,b   Mintzer, Robert A ^b   Greene, Carmen ^c   Grant, Sandra F ^a   Styblo, Toncred M ^b   Murray, Douglas R ^b   Alazraki, Naomi P ^a,b   Halkar, Raghuveer K ^a,b   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^d   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^d   Patt, Bradly E ^d  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Photon Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

GAMMA CAMERAS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0142241208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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