A novel cone beam breast CT scanner: System evaluation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Ning, Ruola ^a   Conover, David ^a   Yu, Yong ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Cai, Weixing ^a   Betancourt Benitez, Ricardo ^a   Lu, Xianghua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; PHANTOM MASSES;

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148837760     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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