Cone-beam volume CT breast imaging: Feasibility study

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 755-770

  Chen, Biao ^a   Ning, Ruola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cone beam volume CT; Flat panel detector; X ray mammography

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY SCATTERING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONE-BEAM VOLUME CT; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; QUANTITATIVE EFFECTS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; X-RAY CHARACTERISTICS; X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM VOLUME COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC BREAST IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035999405     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1461843     Document Type: Article

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