Improved image contrast of calcifications in breast tissue specimens using diffraction enhanced imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3427-3439

  Kiss, Miklos Z ^a,d   Sayers, Dale E ^a   Zhong, Zhong ^b   Parham, Christopher ^a   Pisano, Etta D ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING MODALITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SYNCHROTRONS; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 4444228356     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/15/008     Document Type: Article

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