Comparison of power spectra for tomosynthesis projections and reconstructed images

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1753-1758

  Engstrom, Emma ^a,b   Reiser, Ingrid ^b   Nishikawa, Robert ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST STRUCTURE; LESION DETECTABILITY; POWER LAW EXPONENT; PROJECTION IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; REGIONS OF INTEREST; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBSERVATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOSYNTHESIS PROJECTION;

EID: 65449139477     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3116774     Document Type: Article

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