Evaluation of a photon counting mammography system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 202-208

  Thunberg, Stefan ^b   Francke, Tom ^a   Egerström, Johan ^b   Eklund, Mathias ^b   Ericsson, Leif ^b   Kristoffersson, Thomas ^b   Peskov, Vladimir ^a   Rantanen, Juha ^b   Sokolov, Skiff ^a   Svedenhag, Per ^b   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Weber, Niclas ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; DQE; Image quality; Photon counting; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; X-RAY IMAGING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 18644380387     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465560     Document Type: Article

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