A dual-energy subtraction technique for microcalcification imaging in digital mammography - A signal-to-noise analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1739-1751

  Lemacks, Michael R ^a   Kappadath, S Cheenu ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a   Liu, Xinming ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Dual energy subtraction imaging; Microcalcifications; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION; X RAYS;

CLUTTERED BACKGROUNDS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY SUBTRACTION; IMAGING CONDITIONS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CESIUM; GADOLINIUM; TERBIUM; THALLIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CONTRAST; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

EID: 0036703710     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1494832     Document Type: Article

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