The quantitative potential for breast tomosynthesis imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1004-1016

  Shafer, Christina M ^a,b   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Cancer; Digital simulation; Phantoms; Tissue composition; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

BREAST IMAGING; CANCER; DIGITAL SIMULATION; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77749292445     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3285038     Document Type: Article

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