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Biomedicine
Reports summarize biomedicine study results from G.E. Mawdsley and co-researchers
March 17th, 2009
According to recent research from Toronto, Canada, "The determination of volumetric breast density (VBD) from mammograms requires an accurate knowledge of the thickness of the compressed breast. Previously, the authors described a technique for measuring local thicknesses using optical stereoscopic photogrammetry [A. H. Tyson, G. E. Mawdsley, and M. J. Yaffe, ''Measurement of compressed breast thickness by optical stereoscopic photogrammetry,'' Med. Phys. 36(2), 569-576 (2009)]." "Here, the authors describe the use of this tool to guide the development of a simpler, more practical field technique for the estimation of breast thickness and test its accuracy. Phantoms...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-17)
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