Full breast digital mammography with an amorphous silicon-based flat panel detector: Physical characteristics of a clinical prototype

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 558-567

  Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Albagli, Douglas ^b   Han, Sung ^b   Tkaczyk, Eric J ^b   Landberg, Cynthia E ^b   Opsahl Ong, Beale ^b   Granfors, Paul R ^c   Levis, Ilias ^a   D'Orsi, Carl J ^a   Hendrick, R Edward ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b G E Corporate Research and Development   (United States)

^c GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Detective quantum efficiency (DQE); Digital mammography; Image quality; Physics

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CESIUM IODIDE; EFFICIENCY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHYSICS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

BREAST IMAGING; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0034068552     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598895     Document Type: Article

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