Optimized image acquisition for breast tomosynthesis in projection and reconstruction space

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4859-4869

  Chawla, Amarpreet S ^a   Lo, Joseph Y ^a   Baker, Jay A ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition parameters; AUC; Breast tomosynthesis; Correlation imaging; Decision fusion; Hotelling observer; LG CHO; Multiprojection imaging; Optimization; ROC

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CORRELATION IMAGING; DECISION FUSION; HOTELLING OBSERVERS; LG CHO;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 70350745246     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3231814     Document Type: Article

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