Technical evaluation of a digital breast tomosynthesis system

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

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 350-356

  Marshall, Nicholas ^a   Jacobs, Jurgen ^a   Cockmartin, Lesley ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR KERMA; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR GAIN; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; FOCAL SPOT SIZE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NORMALIZED NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PROJECTION IMAGE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTUM LIMITED; TECHNICAL EVALUATION; TOMOGRAPHIC;

MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77954654610     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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