Improved chest wall imaging through combined complex trajectories in dedicated dual modality SPECT-CT breast molecular imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5650-5656

  Crotty, Dominic J ^a   Cutler, Spencer J ^a   McKinley, Randolph L ^b   Madhav, Priti ^a   Perez, Kristy L ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Zumatek Incorporated   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D POSITIONING; BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM; CHEST WALL; COMPLEX TRAJECTORIES; CONE BEAM; CT SYSTEM; DATA SETS; DUAL MODALITY; DUAL-MODALITY SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIMITED-ANGLE TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OBSERVER STUDIES; PATIENT BED; PATIENT POSITIONING; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SPECT SYSTEM; TASK-BASED;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISIBILITY;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 67649237336     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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