Nonuniform angular dose distribution in digital breast tomosynthesis for increased conspicuity of small high contrast objects

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hu, Yue Houng ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Calcifications; Ideal observer; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; BREAST IMAGING; CALCIFICATIONS; CONSPICUITY; DETECTABILITY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GLANDULAR DOSE; HIGH-CONTRAST OBJECTS; IDEAL OBSERVER; IDEAL OBSERVERS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NONUNIFORM; OBJECT DETECTABILITY; PROJECTION IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION FILTERS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; STRUCTURAL NOISE; TOMOSYNTHESIS; TOTAL DOSE;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RESTORATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749109447     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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