Task-based strategy for optimized contrast enhanced breast imaging: Analysis of six imaging techniques for mammography and tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ikejimba, Lynda ^a,c   Kiarashi, Nooshin ^a,b   Lin, Yuan ^a,c   Chen, Baiyu ^a,c   Ghate, Sujata V ^a   Zerhouni, Moustafa ^d   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tissue Simulation and Phantom Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

detectability index; dual energy; mammography; subtraction; temporal; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

DETECTABILITY INDEX; DUAL ENERGY; SUBTRACTION; TEMPORAL; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IODINE; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860379099     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.913377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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