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An apparatus for positron emission mammography-guided breast biopsy

Raylman et al., 2000

Document ID
1908397815841369085
Author
Raylman R
Majewski S
Wojcik R
Weisenberger A
Kross B
Popov V
Schreiman J
Bishop H
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (Cat. No. 00CH37143)

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Positron emission mammography (PEM) is a new technique that is used to obtain planar images of the breast to detect potentially radiotracer-avid tumors. To increase this method's diagnostic accuracy, it may necessary to acquire tissue samples from these lesions. The …
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