Analytical description of the high and low contrast behavior of a scan-rotate geometry for equalization mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 887-898

  Sabol, John M ^a,b   Plewes, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backprojection; Computed tomography; Conformal radiotherapy; Equalization; Mammography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUALIZERS; GEOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TISSUE; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; BACK-PROJECTION; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; EQUALIZATION; EXPOSURE DISTRIBUTION; IMAGING PROPERTIES; LIMITED DYNAMIC RANGES; X-RAY TRANSMISSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 0029900441     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597731     Document Type: Article

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