Detectors for digital mammography

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 309-324

  Yaffe, Martin J ^a   Mainprize, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY; X RAY FILM;

EID: 4143098087     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300401     Document Type: Review

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