Experimental validation of a three-dimensional linear system model for breast tomosynthesis

Bo Zhao1, Jun Zhou, Yue-Houng Hu

  • 1Department of Radiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, L-4 120 Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8460, USA.

Medical Physics
|February 25, 2009
PubMed
Summary

A 3D model for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) was validated experimentally. The study found that increasing angular range improves lesion detection, while pixel binning involves a trade-off between noise and resolution.

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