Task-based evaluation of image quality of filtered back projection for breast tomosynthesis

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

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 106-113

  Wang, Xinying ^a   Mainprize, James G ^a   Wu, Gang ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

filtered back projection; Fourier analysis; ideal observer; image quality; noise power spectrum; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IDEAL OBSERVER; IDEAL OBSERVERS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77954635373     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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