X-ray scattering in full-field digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1864-1873

  Nykänen, Kirsi ^a   Siltanen, Samuli ^a  

^a GE Healthcare Finland Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

X RAY SCATTERING;

ANTI-SCATTER GRIDS; APPROXIMATE ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; SCATTERED FIELD; SCATTERING MODEL;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

EID: 16744368461     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1584160     Document Type: Article

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