Compositional breast imaging using a dual-energy mammography protocol

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 164-174

  Laidevant, Aurelie D ^a   Malkov, Serghei ^a   Flowers, Chris I ^a   Kerlikowske, Karla ^b   Shepherd, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Dual energy imaging; Inverse mapping; Three compartment imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHANTOMS; PROTEINS; TISSUE; X RAY SCREENS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; DUAL-ENERGY MAMMOGRAPHIES; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; INVERSE MAPPING; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 73649133981     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3259715     Document Type: Article

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