Quantifying breast density with a cone-beam breast CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages

  Li, Xinhua ^a   Liu, Bob ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Breast density; Image reconstruction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

3-D MAPPING; ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BEAM HARDENING; BREAST CT; BREAST DENSITY; CONE ANGLE; CONE-BEAM BREAST CT; DIFFERENT SIZES; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGING NOISE; LINEAR ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PIXEL VALUES; PROJECTION IMAGE; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION; TISSUE ASSESSMENTS; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TISSUE DENSITY; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

TISSUE;

EID: 77954702644     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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