Comparative technical study of two generations of CR plates for digital mammography

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 724-731

  Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Lemmens, Kim ^a   Jacobs, Jurgen ^a   Verbrugge, Beatrijs ^a   Michielsen, Koen ^a   Zanca, Federica ^a   Nens, Joris ^a   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computed radiography; Contrast detail; Digital mammography

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST - DETAIL; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 50949129491     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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