Measurement of breast density with digital breast tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ren, Baorui ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Jing, Zhenxue ^a  

^a HOLOGIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital breast tomosynthesis; mammography; Quantra; scatter correction; scatter response function; volumetric breast density

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; QUANTRA; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SCATTER CORRECTION; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES;

MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; X RAY SCREENS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860354840     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.913357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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