High-resolution, low-dose phase contrast X-ray tomography for 3D diagnosis of human breast cancers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 18290-18294

  Zhao, Yunzhe ^a   Brun, Emmanuel ^b,c   Coan, Paola ^c   Huang, Zhifeng ^a   Sztrókay, Aniko ^c   Diemoz, Paul Claude ^c   Liebhardt, Susanne ^c   Mittone, Alberto ^c   Gasilov, Sergei ^c   Miao, Jianwei ^a   Bravin, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analyzer based imaging; Iterative algorithm; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST X RAY TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

EID: 84868550056     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204460109     Document Type: Article

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