Quantitative contrast-enhanced mammography for contrast medium kinetics studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6041-6064

  Arvanitis, C D ^a   Speller, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IODINE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TUMORS; X RAYS;

ACTIVE MATRIX FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; CLINICAL MAMMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED MAMMOGRAPHIES; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIA; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

IODINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROVASCULATURE; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; X RAY;

EID: 70449122804     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/002     Document Type: Article

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