Evaluation of a new breast-shaped compensation filter for a newly built breast imaging system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Cai, Weixing ^a   Ning, Ruóla ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Conover, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Compensation filter; Cone beam CT

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOMS; COMPENSATION FILTERS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

EID: 35148835331     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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