A technique to improve the effective fill factor of digital mammographic imagers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3336, Issue , 1998, Pages 210-218

  Petrick, Nicholas ^a   Keshavmurthy, Shyam ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Goodsitt, Mitchell M ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital Imaging; Light Collection; Limited Fill Factor; Mammographic Imaging; Microlens Arrays

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROLENSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; X RAYS;

MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032403897     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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