Dynamic range requirements in digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1621-1633

  Maidment, Andrew D ^a   Fahrig, Rebecca ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

detector design; digital mammography; dose; dynamic range; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLYBDENUM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 0027141897     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596949     Document Type: Article

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