Characterization of a prototype, tabletop X-ray CT breast imaging system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  O'Connor, J Michael ^a,b   Glick, Stephen J ^b   Gong, Xing ^c   Didier, Clay ^a,b   Mah'D, Mufeed ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Flat panel detector; MTF; NPS; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TUMORS;

BREAST IMAGING; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148821984     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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