Screen film vs full-field digital mammography: Image quality, detectability and characterization of lesions

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1697-1702

  Obenauer, S ^a   Luftner Nagel, S ^a   von Heyden, D ^a   Munzel, U ^a   Baum, E ^a   Grabbe, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Full field digital mammography; Image quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST LESION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARENCHYMA; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SKIN; X RAY FILM; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0036631465     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1269-y     Document Type: Article

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