Investigation of the line-pair pattern method for evaluating mammographic focal spot performance

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-15

  Goodsitt, Mitchell M ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Liu, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

focal spot; mammographic resolution; quality control

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; TESTING;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; FOCAL SPOT; IMAGE RECEPTORS; IMAGING CHAINS; MAMMOGRAPHIC; RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; SCREEN FILMS; TEST PROTOCOLS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNIFICATION RADIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031037407     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597921     Document Type: Article

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