Dual-energy contrast-enhanced digital mammography (DE-CEDM): Optimization on digital subtraction with practical x-ray low/high-energy spectra

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Biao ^a   Jing, Zhenxue ^c   Smith, Andrew P ^c   Parikh, Samir ^c   Parisky, Yuri ^b  

^a HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Breast Imaging; Contrast Imaging; Digital Mammography; Dual Energy Imaging

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; CONTRAST IMAGING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TISSUE; X RAY TUBES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745349994     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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