Imaging performance of a low-dose screen-film mammography system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3032, Issue , 1997, Pages 358-363

  Jafroudi, Hamid ^a   Jennings, Robert J ^b   Gagne, Robert M ^b   Artz, Dorothy S ^a   Vucich, James J ^c   Freedman, Matthew T ^a   Mun, Seong K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast detail analysis; Digital mammography; Dose; Imaging performance; Mammography; System optimization

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST-DETAIL ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DOSE; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0010321387     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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