Effect of collimator selection on tumor detection for dedicated nuclear breast imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2680-2689

  Hruska, Carrie B ^a,b   O'Connor, Michael K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator; Dedicated breast imaging; Scintimammography; Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

COUNT DENSITIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; NUCLEAR BREAST IMAGING SYSTEMS; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY;

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33750389415     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.879824     Document Type: Article

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