An in vitro evaluation of cone-beam breast CT methods

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 171-187

  Zeng, Kai ^a   Fajardo, Laurie L ^b   Kao, Simon ^b   Franken, Edmund A ^b   Park, Jeong Mi ^b   Jing, Zhenxue ^c   Bai, Er Wei ^b   Wang, Ge ^d  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Cone beam CT; Image quality; Mammography; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESTORATION;

ANGULAR RANGES; BREAST CANCER DETECTIONS; BREAST CT; BREAST IMAGING; CONVERGENCE RATES; DATASETS; DOSE LEVELS; FASTER CONVERGENCES; HYBRID IMAGING; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IN VITRO; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENTS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTION ERRORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VISUAL COMPARISONS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 54349110074     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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