New CR system with pixel size of 50μm for digital mammography: Physical imaging properties and detection of subtle microcalcifications

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 218-224

  Ideguchi, Tadamitsu ^a   Higashida, Yoshiharu ^b   Kawaji, Yasuyuki ^a   Sasaki, Mitsuo ^a   Zaizen, Makoto ^a   Shibayama, Rei ^a   Nakamura, Yumiko ^a   Koyanagi, Kimihiko ^a   Ikeda, Hirotaka ^a   Ohki, Masafumi ^b   Toyofuku, Fukai ^b   Muranaka, Toru ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed radiography (CR); Mammography; Microcalcifications; Observer performance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 4644285805     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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