Evaluation of scatter effects on image quality for breast tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4425-4432

  Wu, Gang ^a,b   Mainprize, James G ^b   Boone, John M ^c,d   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Contrast; Image quality; SDNR; Tomosynthesis; X ray scatter

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

BREAST IMAGING; CONTRAST; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; SCATTER POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SDNR; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 70349659698     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3215926     Document Type: Article

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