Quantification of breast arterial calcification using full field digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1428-1439

  Molloi, Sabee ^a   Xu, Tong ^a,c   Ducote, Justin ^a   Iribarren, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcification; Coronary disease; Densitometry; Mammography

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; CALIBRATION; DISEASES; PHANTOMS;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC BREAST PHANTOM; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM;

ACCURACY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BREAST ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CALIBRATION; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENERGY; ERROR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; THICKNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 41449099517     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2868756     Document Type: Article

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