The first trial of phase contrast imaging for digital full-field mammography using a practical molybdenum x-ray tube

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 385-396

  Tanaka, Toyohiko ^a   Honda, Chika ^b   Matsuo, Satoru ^a   Noma, Kazuo ^a   Oohara, Hiromu ^b   Nitta, Norihisa ^a   Ota, Shinichi ^a   Tsuchiya, Keiko ^a   Sakashita, Yoko ^a   Yamada, Aya ^a   Yamasaki, Michio ^a   Furukawa, Akira ^a   Takahashi, Masashi ^a   Murata, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Konica Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

25 micron pixel size; Computed radiography; Digital mammography; Phase contrast; Photothermographic printer

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 20844438037     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000165575.43381.48     Document Type: Article

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