Dedicated breast camera: Is it the best option for scintimammography? [1]

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 550-

  Schillaci, Orazio ^a   Cossu, Elsa ^a   Buonomo, Oreste ^a   Granai, Alessandra V ^a   Pistolese, Chiara A ^a   Danieli, Roberta ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 17844386850     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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