Optimization of a dual-energy contrast-enhanced technique for a photon counting digital breast tomosynthesis system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 116-123

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Lindman, Karin ^b   Francke, Tom ^b   Maidment, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contrast Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis; Dual Energy Subtraction; Temporal Subtraction; Vascular contrast agent

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST-ENHANCED DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DUAL ENERGY SUBTRACTION; TEMPORAL SUBTRACTION; VASCULAR CONTRAST AGENT;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COPPER; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IODINE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; TIN; WAVE FILTERS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50949086271     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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