Can the specificity of MRI breast imaging be improved by fusing 3D MRI volume data sets with FDG PET?

2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1388-1391

  Noz, M E ^a   Moy, L ^a   Ponzo, F ^a   Kramer, E L ^a   Maguire Jr , Gerald Q ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST TISSUE; METABOLIC IMAGING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METABOLISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 17144386647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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