Comparison of full-field digital mammography to screen-film mammography with respect to contrast and spatial resolution in tissue equivalent breast phantoms

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3144-3150

  Kuzmiak, Cherie M ^a   Pisano, Etta D ^d   Cole, Elodia B ^d   Zeng, Donglin ^b   Burns, Charles B ^a   Roberto, Craig ^a   Pavic, Dag ^a   Lee, Yeonhee ^a   Seo, Bo Kyoung ^c   Koomen, Marcia ^a   Washburn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT DETECTION; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; VISIBILITY;

CONTRAST RESOLUTION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; PARENCHYMAL PATTERNS; SCREEN-FILM MAMMOGRAPHIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BREAST; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FILM; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREEN FILM MAMMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION;

EID: 27244459487     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2040710     Document Type: Article

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