Observer model optimization of a spectral mammography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Fredenberg, Erik ^a   Åslund, Magnus ^b   Cederström, Björn ^a   Lundqvist, Mats ^b   Danielsson, Mats ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anatomical noise; Detectability index; Energy subtraction; Energy weighting; Mammography; Model observer; Photon counting; Spectral imaging

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL NOISE; DETECTABILITY INDEX; ENERGY SUBTRACTION; ENERGY WEIGHTING; MODEL OBSERVER; PHOTON COUNTING; SPECTRAL IMAGING;

BINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY; TUMORS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79955751418     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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