Quantitative imaging in breast tomosynthesis and CT: Comparison of detection and estimation task performance

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2627-2637

  Richard, Samuel ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Breast tomosynthesis; Estimation; Localization; Maximum likelihood estimator; MTF; NPS; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEPTUNIUM;

BREAST CT; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; LOCALIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 77953523692     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3429025     Document Type: Article

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