Cone beam x-ray CT will be superior to digital x-ray tomosynthesis in imaging the breast and delineating cancer

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 409-411

  Karellas, Andrew ^a   Lo, Joseph Y ^b   Orton, Colin G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAYS;

CONE BEAM X-RAY; X-RAY TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOPHYSICS; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; X RAY; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38849107474     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2825612     Document Type: Review

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