Quantification of Al-equivalent thickness of just visible microcalcifications in full field digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2165-2176

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Vandenbroucke, Dirk ^b   Souverijns, Geert ^a   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^a   Dragusin, Octavian ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AGFA GEVAERT N V   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; FROC; Image quality; Microcalcifications; Simulation; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS; VISIBILITY; X RAY SCREENS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY DETECTORS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; FROC; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FULL-FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; SIMULATION;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; BINARY SCORE; BREAST; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FREE RESPONSE RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION TRANSMISSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; X RAY;

EID: 3142658659     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1758352     Document Type: Article

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