Evaluation of fully 3-D emission mammotomography with a compact cadmium zinc telluride detector

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 868-877

  Brzymialkiewicz, Caryl N ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^b   McKinley, Randolph L ^b   Bowsher, James E ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; CZT detector; Emission imaging; Mammotomography; Single photon emission computed tomography; SPECT; Three dimensional orbits

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

BREAST IMAGING; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE (CZT) DETECTORS; EMISSION IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ORBITS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MINIATURIZATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELLURIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 23744501752     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.852501     Document Type: Article

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