Effect of anode/filter combination on the dose and image quality of a digital mammography system based on an amorphous selenium detector

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 716-723

  Baldelli, Paola ^a   Phelan, Niall ^a   Egan, Gillian ^a  

^a BreastCheck   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; Digital mammography; Image Quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; IMAGE QUALITY; SELENIUM; TUNGSTEN;

CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50949090137     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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