Computerized 3D breast phantom with enhanced High-Resolution detail

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Li, Christina M ^a,b   Segars, W Paul ^a,b,c   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b,c   Veress, Alexander I ^d   Boone, John M ^d   Dobbins III, James T ^a,b,c  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging of the breast (MG); Phantoms (PHT); Simulation (SIM)

Indexed keywords

BREAST CT; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; EMPIRICAL DATA; GLANDULAR TISSUE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGES; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; IMAGING OF THE BREAST (MG); LEVEL OF DETAIL; PHANTOMS (PHT); PROJECTION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION (SIM); TOMOSYNTHESIS; VOXELIZATION;

IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749099061     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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