Effects of projection-view distributions on image quality of calcifications in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) reconstruction

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Lu, Yao ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Goodsitt, Mitch ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a   Schmitz, Andrea ^b   Eberhard, Jeffrey W ^b   Claus, Bernhard E H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast calcification; Digital beast tomosynthesis (DBT); Image quality; Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART); System optimization

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; BREAST CALCIFICATIONS; BREAST PHANTOM; DIGITAL BEAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); FOCAL PLANE; LINE PROFILES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS; TUBE MOTION; Z-DIRECTIONS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 79955775871     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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