Very low dose mammography: New perspectives in Diffraction Enhanced Imaging (DEI) mammography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 167-173

  Bravin, Alberto ^a   Fiedler, Stefan ^a   Thomlinson, William C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

ACR; DEI; Digital detector; High energy; Imaging; Low dose; Mammography; Phase contrast; Synchrotron radiation; X ray refraction

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING (DEI); DIGITAL DETECTORS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036032128     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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