Contrast threshold of 4 full field digital mammography systems using different measurement methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4046 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 593-600

  Carton, A K ^a   Bosmans, H ^a   Vanongeval, C ^a   Souverijns, G ^b   Marchal, G ^a   Jacobs, J ^a   Vandenbroucke, D ^c   Pauwels, H ^a   Nijs, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Virga Jesse Hasselt   (Belgium)

^c Agfa Materials   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (FFDM) SYSTEMS; MASTECTOMY IMAGES; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA (NEQ);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746331717     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783237_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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