Dual-energy contrast enhanced digital mammography using a new approach for breast tissue canceling

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^c ALTRAN TECHNOLOGIES   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithm description; Contrast enhanced digital mammography; Contrast medium; Digital mammography; Dual energy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE;

ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION; BREAST TISSUE CANCELING; CONTRAST ENHANCED DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148829602     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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