Observer detection limits for a dedicated SPECT breast imaging system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1903-1916

  Cutler, S J ^a,b   Perez, K L ^b   Barnhart, H X ^c   Tornai, M P ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D TRAJECTORY; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST SPECT IMAGING; CIRCULAR TRAJECTORY; CONCENTRATION RATIO; CONTRAST-DETAIL CURVE; DETECTION LIMITS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; IMAGING CONDITIONS; INNER DIAMETERS; LOW NOISE; OBJECT DETECTABILITY; QUADRATIC REGRESSION; SINE-WAVE; SLICE IMAGE; WALL THICKNESS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77949730926     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/008     Document Type: Article

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