Analyser-based mammography using single-image reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3599-3611

  Briedis, Dahliyani ^a   Siu, Karen K W ^a   Paganin, David M ^a   Pavlov, Konstantin M ^a   Lewis, Rob A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

RADIOGRAPHS; SIMULATED MICROCALCIFICATION; SINGLE-IMAGE RECONSTRUCTIONS; X-RAY PHASE CONTRAST IMAGES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22544441874     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/15/008     Document Type: Article

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