Dual-energy mammography: Simulation studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4497-4515

  Bliznakova, K ^a   Kolitsi, Z ^a   Pallikarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL-ENERGY MAMMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY SIMULATORS; SOURCE MODELING; X-RAY IMAGING SIMULATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; DISEASE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SIMULATORS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33748530635     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/18/004     Document Type: Article

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