A virtual trial framework for quantifying the detectability of masses in breast tomosynthesis projection data

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Young, Stefano ^a   Bakic, Predrag R ^b   Myers, Kyle J ^c   Jennings, Robert J ^c   Park, Subok ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

breast tomosynthesis; image quality; model observers; projections; task specific; virtual trials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPEN SYSTEMS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM NOISE;

BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; MODEL OBSERVER; PROJECTIONS; TASK-SPECIFIC; VIRTUAL TRIALS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL DETECTION; BREAST TUMOR; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84877245989     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4800501     Document Type: Article

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