Optimizing the target-filter combination in digital mammography in the sense of image quality and average glandular dose

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 570-576

  Varjonen, Mari ^a   Strömmer, Pekka ^a  

^a Planmed Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLYBDENUM; OPTIMIZATION; RHODIUM; SELENIUM; SILVER; TARGETS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TUNGSTEN; WAVE FILTERS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50949103172     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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