Digital breast tomosynthesis using an amorphous selenium flat panel detector

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 529-540

  Bissonnette, M ^a   Hansroul, M ^a   Masson, E ^a   Savard, S ^a   Cadieux, S ^a   Warmoes, P ^a   Gravel, D ^a   Agopyan, J ^a   Polischuk, B ^a   Haerer, W ^b   Mertelmeier, T ^b   Lo, J Y ^c   Chen, Y ^c   Dobbins III, J T ^c   Jesneck, J L ^c   Singh, S ^c  

^a Anrad Corporation   (Canada)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; DQE; Filtered backprojection; Flat panel detector; MTF; NPS; Reconstruction; Selenium detector; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; METAL DETECTORS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SELENIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY (DQE); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS (FPD); NOISE POWER SPECTRUM (NPS); RECONSTRUCTION; SELENIUM DETECTORS; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844558650     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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