Computation of mass-density images from x-ray refraction-angle images

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1769-1778

  Wernick, Miles N ^a,b   Yang, Yongyi ^a,b   Mondal, Indrasis ^a   Chapman, Dean ^c   Hasnah, Moumen ^d   Parham, Christopher ^e   Pisano, Etta ^f   Zhong, Zhong ^g  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^g BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DENSITY VARIATIONS; MAMMOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; MASS DENSITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE DENSITY; CALCULATION; CARTILAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE; WATER CONTENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33645284763     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/7/009     Document Type: Article

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