Optimization of the acquisition geometry in digital tomosynthesis of the breast

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1199-1207

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Ghetti, Caterina ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

breast; digital mammography; optimization; reconstruction; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BREAST; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; GEOMETRY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849136026     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3090889     Document Type: Article

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