Design and development of a fully-3D dedicated x-ray computed mammotomography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 189-197

  Tornai, Martin P ^a,b   McKinley, Randolph L ^a,b   Brzymialkiewicz, Caryl N ^a,b   Madhav, Priti ^a,b   Cutler, Spencer J ^a,b   Crotty, Dominic J ^a,b   Bowsher, James E ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Breast cancer; Breast imaging; Imaging; Iterative reconstruction; Mammotomography; Structural imaging; Tomography; Transmission imaging; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; TUMORS; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 23744438444     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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