Positron emission tomography-guided biopsy with a dedicated breast scanner: Initial evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 620-624

  Raylman, Raymond R ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Breast imaging; Instrumentation; Nuclear medicine

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; BREAST BIOPSIES; BREAST IMAGES; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL USE; HUMAN TESTING; IMAGING CONDITIONS; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTI-ANGLE; NEW DEVICES; POSITIONING ERROR; POSITIONING SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION; SMALL LESIONS; STANDARD METHOD; THREE AXES;

BIOPSY; INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; TOOLS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649207861     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2015449     Document Type: Article

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