A simultaneous PET/MRI breast scanner based on the RatCAP

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4650-4655

  Ravindranath, B ^a   Maramraju, S H ^a   Junnarkar, S S ^b   Southekal, S S ^a   Stoll, S P ^b   Pratte, J F ^b   Purschke, M L ^b   Hong, X ^c   Bennett, D ^c   Cheng, K ^c   Tomasi, D ^b   Smith, D S ^b   Krishnamoorthy, S ^a   Vaska, P ^b   WOOdy, C L ^b   Schlyer, D J ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Aurora Imaging Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNER; HIGH-RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; PREDICTIVE POWER; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

EID: 67649200837     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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