Design and characterization of a digital image acquisition system for whole-specimen breast histopathology

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5089-5103

  Clarke, Gina M ^a,b   Peressotti, Chris ^a   Mawdsley, Gordon E ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOPATHOLOGY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; SURGICAL MARGIN ASSESSMENT;

HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST; DIGITAL IMAGING; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749629770     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/002     Document Type: Article

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