Comparison of diffuse optical tomography of human breast with whole-body and breast-only positron emission tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 446-455

  Konecky, Soren D ^a   Choe, Regine ^a   Corlu, Alper ^a   Lee, Kijoon ^a   Wiener, Rony ^a   Srinivas, Shyam M ^a   Saffer, Janet R ^a   Freifelder, Richard ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Hajjioui, Nassim ^b   Azar, Fred ^b   Yodh, Arjun G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose; Breast cancer; Breast imaging; Diffuse optical tomography; Hypoxia; Near infrared imaging; Positron emission tomography; Tumor metabolism

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; HYPOXIA; NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING; TUMOR METABOLISMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 38849095393     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2826560     Document Type: Article

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