Quality control for digital mammography in the ACRIN DMIST trial: Part I

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 719-736

  Bloomquist, Aili K ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a   Pisano, Etta D ^b   Hendrick, R Edward ^c   Mawdsley, Gordon E ^a   Bright, Stewart ^a   Shen, Sam Z ^a   Mahesh, Mahadevappa ^d   Nickoloff, Edward L ^e   Fleischman, Richard C ^f   Williams, Mark B ^g   Maidment, Andrew D A ^h   Beideck, Daniel J ⁱ   Och, Joseph ^j   Seibert, J A ^k  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^j ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Digital mammography; Image quality; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; DETERIORATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; QUALITY CONTROL TESTS; SCREEN-FILM MAMMOGRAPHIES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; PHYSICS; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33644630313     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2163407     Document Type: Article

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