A project for digital mammography based on a GaAs pixel detector and on a self-triggering single photon counting acquisition system

Physica Medica

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 157-165

  Amendolia, S R ^a   Bertolucci, E ^b   Bottigli, U ^c   Ciocci, M A ^c   Cola, A ^d   Conti, M ^b   Delogu, P ^c   Fantacci, M E ^c   Magistrati, G ^e   Pernigotti, E ^f,g   Romeo, N ^c   Russo, P ^b   Stefanini, A ^c   Stumbo, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^e LABEN SpA   (Italy)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; GaAs; Pixel detector; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER SCREENING; CONTRAST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 13144283698     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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