Toward high-contrast breast CT at low radiation dose1

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 321-327

  Keyriläinen, Jani ^a   Fernandez, Manuel ^b   Karjalainen Lindsberg, Marja Liisa ^c   Virkkunen, Pekka ^c   Leidenius, Marjut ^c   Von Smitten, Karl ^c   Sipilä, Petri ^d   Fiedler, Stefan ^e   Suhonen, Heikki ^e   Suortti, Pekka ^e   Bravin, Alberto ^f  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53749103750     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2491072129     Document Type: Article

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