One-dimensional scatter grid for the senoscan® slot-scanning digital mammography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1103-1111

  Elbakri, Idris A ^a   Shen, Sam ^b   Bloomquist, Aili ^b   Tesic, Mike M ^a   Mawdsley, Gordon ^b   Yaffe, Martin ^b  

^a Fischer Medical Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SCATTER GRID; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; DIGITAL PIXELS; SCANNING SLOT DETECTORS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844476896     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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