Optimization of operational conditions for direct digital mammography detectors for digital tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1272-1281

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Deych, Ruvin ^b   Dolazza, Enrico ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANALOGIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY (DQE); DETECTOR NOISE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY DETECTORS; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELENIUM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844518392     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.597301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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