A three-dimensional breast software phantom for mammography simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3699-3719

  Bliznakova, K ^a   Bliznakov, Z ^a   Bravou, V ^a   Kolitsi, Z ^a   Pallikarakis, Nipa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FRACTALS; MUSCLE; SURFACE PHENOMENA; X RAYS;

HISTOGRAMS; RADIOGRAPHS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST DUCT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOLOGIST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY FILM;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0344035369     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/22/006     Document Type: Article

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