Custom breast phantom for an accurate tumor SNR analysis

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 198-204

  Cinti, M Nnerina ^a   Pani, R ^a   Garibaldi, F ^b   Pellegrini, R ^a   Betti, M ^a   Lanconelli, N ^c   Riccardi, A ^c   Campanini, R ^c   Zavattini, G ^d   Di Domenico, G ^d   Del Guerra, A ^e   Belcari, N ^e   Bencivelli, W ^e   Motta, A ^e   Vaiano, A ^e   Weinberg, I N ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f PEM Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical nuclear imaging; Photomultipliers; Scintilation detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILATION DETECTORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 2342597107     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.824827     Document Type: Article

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