The effect of lag on image quality for a digital breast tomosynthesis system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mainprize, James G ^a   Wanga, Xinying ^a   Yaffea, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; Lag; Noise power spectrum; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM; CONSPICUITY; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IMAGE NOISE; LAG; LOSS-OF-SIGNAL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PROJECTION IMAGE; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TOMOSYNTHESIS; TRANSIENT EFFECT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POWER SPECTRUM; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 66849126255     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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