Image qualities of phase-contrast mammography

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

Volumn 4046 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 281-288

  Honda, Chika ^a   Ohara, Hiromu ^a   Gido, Tomonori ^a  

^a Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS; SAMPLING;

COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; PHASE-CONTRAST MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTOTHERMOGRAPHIC FILMS; SPOT-COMPRESSION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746378370     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783237_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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