How good is the ACR accreditation phantom for assessing image quality in digital mammography?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 764-772

  Huda, Walter ^a   Sajewicz, Anthony M ^a   Ogden, Kent M ^a   Scalzetti, Ernest M ^a   Dance, David R ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American College of Radiology (ACR) phantom; Digital mammography; Image quality; Observer performance; Radiation dose; Radiographic techniques

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; BREAST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 0036318277     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80345-8     Document Type: Article

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