Impact of heel effect and ROI size on the determination of contrast-to-noise ratio for digital mammography systems

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Alsager, Abdulaziz ^a,b   Young, Kenneth C ^a,b   Oduko, Jennifer M ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; Digital mammography; Heel effect; Quality control

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; PHASE NOISE; QUALITY CONTROL; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HEEL EFFECT;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 43149086650     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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