Use of the European protocol to optimise a digital mammography system

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

Volumn 4046 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 362-369

  Young, Kenneth C ^a   Cook, James J H ^a   Oduko, Jennifer M ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGE QUALITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HIGH ENERGY BEAM QUALITIES; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE (MGD);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746340309     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783237_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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