Analysis of image combination methods for conjugate breast scintigraphy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1146-1154

  Judy, Patricia G ^a   Gong, Zongyi ^a   Dinion, Nicole L ^a   Welch, Benjamin L ^b   St Saviour, Torre ^b   Kieper, Doug ^b   Majewski, Stan ^c   McKisson, John ^d   Kross, Brian ^d   Proffitt, James ^e   Stolin, Alexander V ^c   More, Mitali J ^a   Williams, Mark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Dilon Technologies   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^e Adaptive Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast scintigraphy; Conjugate imaging; Molecular breast imaging

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BREAST IMAGING; CAMERA IMAGES; COMBINED IMAGES; COUNTING SYSTEM; GEOMETRIC MEAN; IMAGE COMBINATION; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; LESION DEPTH; LESION DETECTABILITY; PRODUCT IMAGES; SINGLE CAMERAS; SINGLE IMAGES; SMALL LESIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PIXELS;

EID: 77953728628     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2038472     Document Type: Article

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