Thick slices from tomosynthesis data sets: Phantom study for the evaluation of different algorithms

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 519-526

  Diekmann, Felix ^a   Meyer, Henning ^a   Diekmann, Susanne ^a   Puong, Sylvie ^b   Muller, Serge ^b   Bick, Ulrich ^a   Rogalla, Patrik ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

Author keywords

3D Imaging (imaging, 3 dimensional); Computed; Digital mammography; Tomography; X ray

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; 3D IMAGING (IMAGING, 3-DIMENSIONAL); COMPUTED; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT SIZES; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GE HEALTHCARES; IMAGE GENERATIONS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE PROPERTIES; IN-BETWEEN; LOWER NOISE; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; PHANTOM STUDIES; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SOURCE DATA; THICK SLAB; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INCLUSIONS; PLASMA WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

SET THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SLICE; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349286795     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9075-y     Document Type: Article

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