Patchwork reconstruction with resolution modeling for digital breast tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Michielsen, Koen ^a   Van Slambrouck, Katrien ^a   Jerebko, Anna ^b   Nuyts, Johan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast tomosynthesis; maximum likelihood reconstruction; reconstruction; spatial resolution; tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATA VISUALIZATION; DETERIORATION; ELECTRON SOURCES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; BREAST; BREAST EXAMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; X RAY; ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84874763230     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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