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Very-low-dose mammography: new perspectives in diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) mammography

Bravin et al., 2002

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16622865832738293480
Author
Bravin A
Fiedler S
Thomlinson W
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Medical Imaging 2002: Physics of Medical Imaging

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Diffraction Enhanced Imaging (DEI) can significantly improve the expressiveness of mammography radiographs. Whereas the contrast in conventional radiographs is based on small X-ray absorption differences of tissues, the contrast mechanism of DEI is, in addition …
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