Performance assessment of two time-domain scanning optical mammographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5138, Issue , 2003, Pages 281-289

  Wabnitz, Heidrun ^a   Taroni, Paola ^b   Grosenick, Dirk ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^b   Torricelli, Alessandro ^b   Liebert, Adam ^a   Möller, Michael ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^b   Rinneberg, Herbert ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Optical mammography; Time resolved diffuse transmittance; Tissue optical properties; Tissue phantoms

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

OPTICAL MAMMOGRAPHY; TIME RESOLVED DIFFUSE TRANSMITTANCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 1342310508     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.500533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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