Comprehensive assessment of the slice sensitivity profiles in breast tomosynthesis and breast CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7254-7261

  Nosratieh, Anita ^a,b,c   Yang, Kai ^b,c   Aminololama Shakeri, Shadi ^b,c   Boone, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

breast imaging; image quality; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

DELTA FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCANNING;

BREAST IMAGING; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; GRAY SCALE VALUES; SENSITIVITY PROFILES; SLICE-SENSITIVITY PROFILES; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870948675     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4764908     Document Type: Article

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