Breast CT

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages 501-526

  Glick, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Computerized tomography; CT; Digital imaging; Image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

BREAST IMAGING; DIGITAL DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; X RAY TUBE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348819883     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.9.060906.151924     Document Type: Review

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