Development of contrast digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2419-2426

  Skarpathiotakis, Mia ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a   Bloomquist, Aili K ^a   Rico, Dan ^a   Muller, Serge ^b   Rick, Andreas ^b   Jeunehomme, Fanny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GE Medical Systems SA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IODINE; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CLINICAL PILOT STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; X-RAY BEAM FILTRATION; X-RAY BEAM INTENSITY;

X RAYS;

ALUMINUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; COPPER; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IODINE; IOHEXOL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; MOLYBDENUM; RHODIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0036797432     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1510128     Document Type: Article

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