Development and application of a suite of 4-D virtual breast phantoms for optimization and evaluation of breast imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1401-1409

  Kiarashi, Nooshin ^a,b   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b,c   Lin, Yuan ^a   Ikejimba, Lynda C ^a   Ghate, Sujata V ^d   Nolte, Loren W ^b   Dobbins, James T ^a,c   Segars, William P ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c Duke Medical Physics Graduate Program   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast phantom; contrast enhanced breast imaging; four dimensional (4 D) breast phantom; system evaluation; system optimization; virtual breast phantom

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; KINETICS; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE;

BREAST IMAGING; BREAST PHANTOM; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; SYSTEM EVALUATION; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL BREAST PHANTOM; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; KINETICS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84903761758     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2312733     Document Type: Article

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