A comparison of the performance of digital mammography systems

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 906-914

  Monnin, P ^a   Gutierrez, D ^a   Bulling, S ^a   Guntern, D ^b   Verdun, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS; X RAY ABSORPTION;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL COLLECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33847645786     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2432072     Document Type: Article

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