Evaluation of tilted cone-beam CT orbits in the development of a dedicated hybrid mammotomograph

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3659-3676

  Madhav, P ^a,b   Crotty, D J ^a,b   McKinley, R L ^c   Tornai, M P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c Zumatek Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CHEST WALL; COMPLEX TRAJECTORIES; CONE BEAM; CONE-BEAM CT; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; DETECTOR CONFIGURATION; FREQUENCY INFORMATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-PLANE; LINE PROFILES; MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; OUT-OF-PLANE; PATIENT IMAGES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SINUSOIDAL TRAJECTORIES; SUB-SYSTEMS; TILT ANGLE; VOLUMETRIC SAMPLING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TRAJECTORIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BREAST; CASE REPORT; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 70149087338     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/004     Document Type: Article

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