Imaging performance of a clinical selenium flat-panel detector for advanced applications in full-field digital mammography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5030 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 1010-1020

  Loustauneau, V ^a   Bissonnette, M ^a   Cadieux, S ^a   Hansroul, M ^a   Masson, E ^a   Savard, S ^a   Polischuk, B ^a   Lehtimäki, Mari ^b  

^a Anrad Corporation   (Canada)

^b GE Healthcare Finland Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Direct converter; FFDM; Flat panel; Ghosting; Mammography; Selenium; TACT; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

FLAT PANEL DETECTORS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0042877202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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