Dedicated breast CT: Fibroglandular volume measurements in a diagnostic population

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7317-7328

  Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Shi, Linxi ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a   O'Connell, Avice M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

breast CT; breast density; fibroglandular volume; glandular fraction; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COPYING; DOSIMETRY; FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATHOLOGY; PHANTOMS;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; BREAST CT; BREAST DENSITY; FIBROGLANDULAR; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; GLANDULAR FRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHIC BREAST DENSITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870886844     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4765050     Document Type: Article

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