Evaluation of scatter effects on image quality for breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Gang, Wu ^a,b   Mainprize, James G ^b   Boone, John M ^c,d   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Contrast; Image quality; SDNR; Tomosynthesis; X ray scatter

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VOLUME TOMOGRAPHIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 35148881780     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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