Development of a physical 3D anthropomorphic breast phantom

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 891-896

  Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Bakic, Predrag ^a   Ullberg, Christer ^b   Derand, Helen ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anthropomorphic breast phantom; breast x ray imaging; digital breast tomosynthesis; image quality assessment; mammography

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC BREAST PHANTOM; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; X RAY IMAGING SYSTEM; XRAY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79551654718     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533896     Document Type: Article

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