Tomographic mammography using a limited number of low-dose cone-beam projection images

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-380

  Wu, Tao ^a   Stewart, Alexander ^a   Stanton, Martin ^a   McCauley, Thomas ^a   Phillips, Walter ^a   Kopans, Daniel B ^b   Moore, Richard H ^b   Eberhard, Jeffrey W ^c   Opsahl Ong, Beale ^c   Niklason, Loren ^d   Williams, Mark B ^e  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d University of Virginia ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cone beam; Digital mammography; Low dose imaging; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; CONE BEAM; DATA COLLECTION PROTOCOLS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; LOW DOSE; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

EID: 0037339682     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1543934     Document Type: Article

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