Contrast-enhanced spectral mammography with a photon-counting detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2017-2029

  Fredenberg, Erik ^a   Hemmendorff, Magnus ^b   Cederström, Björn ^a   Åslund, Magnus ^b   Danielsson, Mats ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anatomical noise; Contrast agent; Detectability index; Energy subtraction; Energy weighting; Mammography; Photon counting; Spectral imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM NOISE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANATOMICAL NOISE; CONTRAST AGENT; DETECTABILITY INDEX; ENERGY SUBTRACTION; ENERGY WEIGHTING; PHOTON COUNTING; SPECTRAL IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77952404690     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3371689     Document Type: Article

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