Characterization of a constrained paired-view technique in iterative reconstruction for breast tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Gang ^a,b   Mainprize, James G ^b   Yaffe, Martin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artifact reduction; Breast imaging; Ideal observer; Image quality; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY; WHITE NOISE;

ARTEFACT REDUCTION; BREAST IMAGING; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; IDEAL OBSERVERS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERFORMANCE; PROJECTION VIEWS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR VOLUME; WHITE NOISE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84885825728     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4819943     Document Type: Article

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