Positron emission mammography with tomographic acquisition using dual planar detectors: Initial evaluations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2437-2452

  Smith, Mark F ^a   Raylman, Raymond R ^b   Majewski, Stan ^a   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPSY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ROTATION; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY (PEM); SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOPSY; BREAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; SAMPLING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOTAXIS; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 3042819646     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/11/022     Document Type: Article

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