Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry method using a full field digital mammography system

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 108-115

  Laidevant, Aurelie ^a   Malkov, Serghei ^a   Au, Alfred ^b   Shepherd, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast density; Breast like phantoms; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry

Indexed keywords

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST-LIKE PHANTOMS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY;

CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50949133937     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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