Contrast-detail phantom scoring methodology

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 807-814

  Thomas, Jerry A ^a   Chakrabarti, Kish ^b   Kaczmarek, Richard ^b   Romanyukha, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast detail phantom; Digital mammography; Image quality control

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

CONTRAST DETAIL; CONTRAST DETAIL MAMMOGRAPHIES; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 15744405538     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1862097     Document Type: Article

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