Dual-energy subtraction for contrast-enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Lindman, Karin ^b   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Francke, Tom ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DE; MG; TSYN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DOSE FRACTION; ELEMENTAL FILTERS; HIGH-ENERGY IMAGES; OPTIMAL TISSUE CANCELLATION FACTOR;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148856835     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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