Optimal spectra for indirect detector breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Click, Stephen J ^a   Gong, Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NOISE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745430408     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.649547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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