A review of breast tomosynthesis. Part II. Image reconstruction, processing and analysis, and advanced applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; breast tomosynthesis; contrast enhanced imaging; digital mammography; elastography; image analysis; image processing; image reconstruction; phase contrast; radiotherapy; review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEWS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED IMAGING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRASTS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ALGORITHM; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84872044820     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4770281     Document Type: Review

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