Performance of dedicated emission mammotomography for various breast shapes and sizes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5051-5064

  Brzymialkiewicz, C N ^a,b   Tornai, M P ^a,b   McKinley, R L ^a,b   Cutler, S J ^a,b   Bowsher, J E ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC TORSO; EMISSION MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; POLAR CAMERA TILT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; VISUALIZATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST LESION; CAMERA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMISSION MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33748948707     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/19/021     Document Type: Article

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