Dedicated cone-beam breast CT: Feasibility study with surgical mastectomy specimens

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1312-1315

  Yang, Wei Tse ^a   Carkaci, Selin ^a   Chen, Lingyun ^a   Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Sahin, Aysegul ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; CT radiography; Mastectomy; Radiation dose; Specimen radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36448987873     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2403     Document Type: Article

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