Development and validation of a simulation procedure to study the visibility of micro calcifications in digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2234-2240

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^a   Souverijns, Geert ^a   Rogge, Frank ^a   Van Steen, Andreas ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Micro calcifications; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; TRANSMISSIONS; VISIBILITY; X RAY SCREENS; X RAYS;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EQUIVALENT THICKNESS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODULATIONS; X-RAY BEAM QUALITIES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041386608     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1591193     Document Type: Article

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