Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 97-99 , March 2010

Low-cost phantoms for training of stereotactic vacuum-assisted biopsy of the breast

  • Arne Fischmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Basel Hospital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland
    • Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, DE-72076 Tübingen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, University of Basel Hospital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 61 32 86556; fax: +41 61 265 5471.
    • ,
  • Katja C. Siegmann

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, DE-72076 Tübingen, Germany

Received 1 February 2009 ,Accepted 27 March 2009.

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☆ The authors are thankful to Permi Jhooti for proofreading and language corrections.

PII: S0899-7071(09)00088-6

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.03.011

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 2 , Pages 97-99 , March 2010

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