Investigation of cone-beam acquisitions implemented using a novel dedicated mammotomography system with unique arbitrary orbit capability

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 609-617

  McKinley, Randolph L ^a,b   Brzymialkiewicz, Caryl N ^a,b   Madhav, Priti ^a,b   Tornai, Martin P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction uncompressed breast imaging; Orbits; Quasi monochromatic; X ray computed mammotomography

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION UNCOMPRESSED BREAST IMAGING; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; X-RAY COMPUTED MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DETECTOR;

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; FILTRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844455030     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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