Contrast Enhanced Digital Mammography (CEDM): Phantom experiment and first clinical results

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 174-181

  Marx, Christiane ^a   Facius, Mirijam ^a   Muller, Serge ^b   Benali, Karim ^b   Malich, Ansgar ^a   Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GE Medical Systems   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast medium; Digital mammography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTRAST ENHANCED DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (CEDM); FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (FFDM);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036033419     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465556     Document Type: Article

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