Image quality of microcalcifications in digital breast tomosynthesis: Effects of projection-view distributions

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5703-5712

  Lu, Yao ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Goodsitt, Mitch ^a   Carson, Paul L ^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 tomosynthesis; image quality; microcalcifications; projection view distribution

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRON SOURCES; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION EFFECTS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIFFUSION REGULARIZATION; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PROJECTION VIEWS; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 80053614870     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3637492     Document Type: Article

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