Applications of a pet device with 1.5 MM FWHM intrinsic spatial resolution to breast cancer imaging

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1396-1399

  Weinberg, Irving ^a   Beylin, David ^a   Yarnall, Steve ^a   Anashkin, Edward ^a   Stepanov, Pavel ^a   Dolinsky, Sevgei ^a   Zavarzin, Valera ^a   Peter, William ^a   Lauckner, Kathrin ^b   Morton, Kathryn ^c   Freimanis, Rita ^c   Lesko, Nadia ^c   Levine, Edward ^c   Perrier, Nancy ^c   Lovelace, Judy ^c   Geisinger, Kim ^c   Williams, Rodney ^c   Wollenweber, Scott ^c   Narayanan, Deepa ^d   Doss, Mohan ^d   Hummel, Jean ^d   Sigurdson, Elin ^d   Evers, Kathryn ^d   Torosian, Michael ^d   Adler, Lee ^d   more..

^a Naviscan PET System   (United States)

^b Seleon ^*

^c WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^d FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; VOLUMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20244387846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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