Optimization of a dual-energy contrast-enhanced technique for a photon-counting digital breast tomosynthesis system: II. An experimental validation

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5908-5913

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

digital breast tomosynthesis; dual energy; iodine contrast enhanced imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COPPER; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IODINE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; STATISTICS; TIN; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); DUAL ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; IODINE CONCENTRATION; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 78149461436     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3488889     Document Type: Article

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