An optimised 3D breast phantom for x-ray breast imaging techniques

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 22, Issue , 2008, Pages 2455-2458

  Bliznakova, Kristina ^a   Kazakli, S ^a   Pallikarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast modeling; Mammography simulation

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION MODULES; BREAST MODELING; BREAST PHANTOM; CONE-BEAM CT; DIFFERENT SIZES; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DUAL ENERGY; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MODELING METHOD; SIMULATED IMAGES; SOFTWARE PHANTOM; SPEED-UPS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 70350650381     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89208-3_589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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