Visibility of microcalcifications in CCD-based cone beam CT: A preliminary study

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Shen, Youtao ^a   Chen, Lingyun ^a   Ge, Shuaiping ^a   Yi, Ying ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Zhong, Yuncheng ^a   Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Liu, Xinming ^a   Wang, Tianpeng ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD detector; Cone beam computed tomography; Dose; Microcalcification; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CCD DETECTOR; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; DOSE; EXPOSURE LEVEL; FELDKAMP; IMAGE SIGNAL; MICROCALCIFICATION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PROJECTION IMAGE;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIUM; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL CAMERAS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISIBILITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749087619     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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