Visual enhancement for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer by multiple display formats of SPECT/CT images

BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 286-289

  Huang, Jia Yann ^a   Kao, Pan Fu ^b   Chen, Yung Sheng ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME RENDERING;

BREAST CANCERS; INFORMATICS;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 51649115830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2008.167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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