A photon-counting detector for dual-energy breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fredenberg, Erik ^a   Lundqvist, Mats ^b   Åslund, Magnus ^b   Hemmendorff, Magnus ^b   Cederström, Björn ^a   Danielsson, Mats ^a  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dual energy subtraction; Energy resolution; Mammography; Photon counting; Spatial resolution; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

DUAL-ENERGY SUBTRACTION; ENERGY RESOLUTION; PHOTON COUNTING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

DETECTORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IODINE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749148423     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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