Investigation of the Z-axis resolution of breast tomosynthesis mammography systems

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Yiheng ^a,b   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Ge, Jun ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CGC B2109 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Depth resolution; Digital tomosynthesis mammography (DTM); Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART)

Indexed keywords

DEPTH RESOLUTION; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS MAMMOGRAPHY (DTM); SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE (SART);

DRUG DOSAGE; ONCOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TISSUE;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148825674     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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