Validation of a simulated dose reduction methodology using digital mammography CDMAM images and mastectomy images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 78-85

  Yip, Mary ^a   Zanca, Federica ^b   MacKenzie, Alistair ^c   Workman, Adam ^d   Young, Kenneth C ^c   Dance, David R ^c   Bosmans, Hilde ^b   Lewis, Emma ^a   Wells, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CDMAM phantom; Digital mammography; dose reduction; mastectomy; simulation; validation

Indexed keywords

CDMAM PHANTOM; CONTRAST-DETAIL CURVE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; DOSE LEVELS; DOSE REDUCTION; FILTERED NOISE; HIGH DOSE; HIGH SPATIAL FREQUENCY; LOW DOSE; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; SIMULATION VALIDATION;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954630951     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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