Concepts for high-resolution CT of the breast

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

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 421-427

  Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast; calcifications; computed tomography; dose; image quality

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED DYNAMICS; ALTERNATIVE METHODS; BREAST CALCIFICATIONS; BREAST IMAGING; CALCIFICATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYNAMIC IMAGING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION CT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-POWER; MICRO CT; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPIRAL SCAN; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954652980     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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