CCD Mosaic technique for large-field digital mammography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 260-267

  Jalink, Antony ^a   McAdoo, James ^a   Halama, Gary ^b   Liu, Hong ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CARRIER PLATFORM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGING ARRAYS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030165684     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.500135     Document Type: Article

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