Initial study of an asymmetric PET system dedicated to breast cancer imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-126

  Tai, Yuan Chuan ^a,b   Wu, Heyu ^a,b   Janecek, Martin ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical nuclear imaging; Imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; BREAST CANCER IMAGING; BREAST TISSUES; PLANAR DETECTORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION DETECTORS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645699260     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.869853     Document Type: Article

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