Preliminary investigation of dose for a dedicated mammotomography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  McKinley, Randolph L ^a,b   Tornai, Martin P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam; CT; Dose; Iterative reconstruction uncompressed breast imaging; Orbits; Quasi monochromatic; Trajectory; X ray computed mammotomography

Indexed keywords

CONE-BEAM; DOSE; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION UNCOMPRESSED BREAST IMAGING; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; X RAY COMPUTED MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745373479     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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