The positron emission mammography/tomography breast imaging and biopsy system (PEM/PET): design, construction and phantom-based measurements

RR Raylman, S Majewski, MF Smith… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
breasts. We have developed a high-resolution positron emission mammography/ … imaging
and biopsy device (called PEM/PET) to detect and guide the biopsy of suspicious breast

Clinical imaging characteristics of the positron emission mammography camera: PEM Flex Solo II

L MacDonald, J Edwards, T Lewellen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
… Again, there is a need to establish an appropriate counting-rate measurement metric for
breast imaging PEM/PET systems that encompasses expected activity levels. The …

Positron emission tomography (PET) and mammography (PEM) for breast cancer: importance to surgeons

L Tafra - Annals of surgical oncology, 2007 - Springer
… In spite of advances in breast imaging, the re-excision rate for patients undergoing partial
mastectomy in the literature ranges from 4 to as high as 60%, with approximately half of the re-…

Clear-PEM: A PET imaging system dedicated to breast cancer diagnostics

MC Abreu, D Aguiar, E Albuquerque… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2007 - Elsevier
… (PET) has been proposed as a complementary technique to X-ray mammography in the
diagnosis and treatment monitoring of breast … , specially designed for breast imaging known as …

Breast cancer detection using high-resolution breast PET compared to whole-body PET or PET/CT

JE Kalinyak, WA Berg, K Schilling, KS Madsen… - … and molecular imaging, 2014 - Springer
… Quality Standards Act specializing in breast imaging who had completed previously described
… (ie comparison of performance between PEM and WBPET or PEM and PET/CT), while the …

Results of preliminary clinical trials of the positron emission mammography system PEM-I: a dedicated breast imaging system producing glucose metabolic images …

K Murthy, M Aznar, CJ Thompson, A Loutfi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET scan. Various designs have been proposed for high-resolution … breast imaging
systems that use PET or SPECT technology (19–23). Our positron emission mammography (PEM) …

Positron emission mammography (PEM): a promising technique for detecting breast cancer

CJ Thompson, K Murthy, Y Picard… - IEEE transactions on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… in PEM will be less than in conventional PET since no filtering is done to compensate for the
backprojection onto several planes. If the breast … This is what we expect PEM images to look …

Diagnostic of breast cancer: what do clinicians expect from PEM?

F Giammarile, A Bremond - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2004 - Elsevier
breast PET imaging, called positron emission mammography (PEM), is a new technique to
obtain images of the breast … accuracy of PEM, a functional/anatomic breast imaging platform …

Newly-developed positron emission mammography (PEM) device for the detection of small breast cancer

A Yanai, M Itoh, H Hirakawa, K Yanai… - The Tohoku journal of …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
PEM for the detection of small breast cancer was compared with that of the conventional …
or when the tumor is located in the margin of the breast. The PET/CT and PEM images were …

Method for Combined FDG‐PET and Radiographic Imaging of Primary Breast Cancers

LP Adler, IN Weinberg, MS Bradbury… - The breast …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… a hybrid functional/anatomic breast imaging platform with biopsy … positron emission
mammography (PEM) device mounted on a … The PEM camera used in this study differs from …