Theoretical analysis of high-resolution digital mammography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3041-3055

  Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a,b   Karellas, Andrew ^a,b   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIOTHERAPY; THICKNESS CONTROL; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY (DQE); PIXELS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33745069098     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/12/003     Document Type: Article

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