Performance assessment of a pendant-geometry CT scanner for breast cancer detection

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 319-323

  Boone, John M ^a   Kwan, Alexander L C ^a   Nelson, Thomas R ^b   Shah, Nikula ^a   Burketf, George ^a   Seibert, J Anthony ^a   Lindfors, Karen K ^a   Roos, Gerhardt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Varian Imaging Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Breast imaging; Cone beam computed tomography; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST IMAGING; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

TUMORS;

EID: 23844551628     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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