Dependence of image quality on geometric factors in breast tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3090-3103

  Mainprize, James G ^a   Bloomquist, Aili ^a   Wang, Xinying ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

geometric alignment; image quality; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM ERRORS; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); FILTERED BACK PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; GEOMETRIC ALIGNMENT; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; MATHEMATICAL SIMULATIONS; QUALITY OF RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 79958816501     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3591990     Document Type: Article

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