High-resolution imager for digital mammography: Physical characterization of a prototype sensor

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3957-3969

  Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a,b   Karellas, Andrew ^a,b   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Onishi, Steven K ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA and Emory University   (United States)

^c Fairchild Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SENSORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AIR KERMA; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL CONDITIONS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION DOSE; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 24044538590     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/003     Document Type: Article

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