Development of a quality control protocol for digital breast tomosynthesis systems in the TOMMY trial

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7361 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 330-337

  Strudley, Celia J ^a   Young, Kenneth C ^a   Oduko, Jennifer M ^a   Looney, Padraig ^a   Barnard, Annabel ^a   Gilbert, Fiona J ^b  

^a NCCPM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contrast noise ratio; Digital breast tomosynthesis; geometric distortion; mean glandular dose; QC; threshold contrast detail detectability; z resolution

Indexed keywords

DETECTABILITY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; NOISE RATIO; QC; Z-RESOLUTION;

IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864846715     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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