Evaluation of flat panel detector cone beam CT breast imaging with different sizes of breast phantoms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 626-636

  Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a   Lu, Xianghua ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Yu, Yong ^a   Schiffhauer, Linda ^a   Cullinan, Jeanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Cone beam CT; Cone beam reconstruction; Digital mammography; FPD; Mammography

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; CONE BEAM CT; CONE BEAM RECONSTRUCTION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS (FPD);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844441970     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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