Dual-energy digital mammography: Calibration and inverse-mapping techniques to estimate calcification thickness and glandular-tissue ratio

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1110-1117

  Kappadath, S Cheenu ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Dual energy imaging; Inverse mapping; Microcalcifications

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALIBRATION; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAPPING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; INVERSE MAPPING; LEAST SQUARES ANALYSIS; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

TISSUE;

ALUMINUM; APATITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM OXALATE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CALIBRATION; DUAL ENERGY DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0038715562     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1576394     Document Type: Article

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