Scatter rejection in scanned multi-slit digital mammography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 478-487

  Åslund, Magnus ^a   Cederström, Björn ^b   Lundqvist, Mats ^a   Danielsson, Mats ^b  

^a Mamea Imaging AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital; Mammography; Rejection; Scanning; Scatter; Slit

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

DIGITAL SCATTER; REJECTION; SLIT;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042641613     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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