Measurement of compressed breast thickness by optical stereoscopic photogrammetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 569-576

  Tyson, Albert H ^a   Mawdsley, Gordon E ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast compression; Breast density; Breast thickness; Mammography; Volumetric breast density

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST THICKNESS; COMPRESSION SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; POINTS OF CONTACT; SURFACE DEFORMATION; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; THICKNESS;

EID: 59249088296     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3065066     Document Type: Article

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