Scanned-slot digital mammography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 1231, Issue , 1990, Pages 316-326

  Maidment, Andrew D A ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; EFFICIENCY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FIBER OPTICS--APPLICATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING--RECONSTRUCTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES--DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY--X-RAY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CHARGE COUPLED;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FILM-SCREEN MAMMOGRAPHY; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; QUANTUM INTERACTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BREAST CANCER SCREENING; CHARGED COUPLED DEVICE CAMERAS; FIBER-OPTIC IMAGE REFORMATTERS; SCANNED-SLOT DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0025600112     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.18808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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