Dual-energy contrast enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis: Concept, method and evaluation on phantoms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Puong, Sylvie ^a,b   Patoureaux, Fanny ^b   Iordache, Razvan ^b   Bouchevreau, Xavier ^c   Muller, Serge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^c ALTRAN TECHNOLOGIES   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis; Contrast medium; Digital mammography; Dual energy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTRAST MEDIA; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (CEDBT); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HIGH-ENERGY PROJECTIONS; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148822880     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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