In-plane visibility of lesions using breast tomosynthesis and digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5618-5626

  Timberg, P ^a   Bth, M ^b,c   Andersson, I ^d   Mattsson, S ^a   Tingberg, A ^a   Ruschin, M ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

breast tomosynthesis; digital mammography; forced choice; observer performance; signal detection

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VISIBILITY;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DETECTABILITY INDEX; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FORCED-CHOICE; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77953340413     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3488899     Document Type: Article

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