Development of a quasi-monochromatic CT system for breast cancer study with combined emission-transmission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 703-706

  Gambaccini, M ^a   Fantini, A ^a   Bollini, D ^e   Castelli, E ^g   Del Guerra, A ^h   Di Domenico, G ^a   Pani, R ^b   Pellegrini, R ^b   Sabba, N ^a   Scafe R ^f   Soluri, A ^c   Taibi, A ^a   Tartari, A ^a   Tuffanelli, A ^a   Zavattini, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f NONE

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SENSORS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EMISSION-TRANSMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 17944370497     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.940150     Document Type: Article

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