A new generation FFDM / tomosynthesis fusion system with selenium detector

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Ren, Baorui ^a   Ruth, Chris ^a   Wu, Tao ^a   Zhang, Yiheng ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Niklason, Loren ^a   Williams, Cornell ^b   Ingal, Elena ^b   Polischuk, Brad ^b   Jing, Zhenxue ^b  

^a HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

^b Hologic/DRC   (United States)

Author keywords

AEC; Breast tomosynthesis; CNR; Conic grid; Dose; DQE; FFDM; Image reconstruction; Selenium detector

Indexed keywords

AEC; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CNR; CONIC GRID; DOSE; DQE; FFDM; SELENIUM DETECTORS;

DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; SELENIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955759528     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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