Evaluation of photon-counting spectral breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dahlman, Nils ^a   Fredenberg, Erik ^a   Åslund, Magnus ^b   Lundqvist, Mats ^b   Diekmann, Felix ^c   Danielsson, Mats ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ideal observer; mammography; MTF; NPS; photon counting; spectral imaging; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

IDEAL OBSERVERS; MTF; NPS; PHOTON COUNTING; SPECTRAL IMAGING; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

FORECASTING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79955764358     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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