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Technical Means of Digital Mammography

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This article reviews the current state of digital mammography equipment and assesses technical requirements for its functional units.

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  1. All-Russian Scientific-Research and Testing Institute for Medical Instrument Engineering, Moscow, Russia

    N. N. Blinov & E. B. Kozlovskii

  2. Electron, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. I. Mazurov

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Translated from Meditsinskaya Tekhnika, Vol. 48, No. 5, Sep.-Oct., 2014, pp. 1–4.

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Blinov, N.N., Kozlovskii, E.B. & Mazurov, A.I. Technical Means of Digital Mammography. Biomed Eng 48, 227–231 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10527-015-9458-1

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