A curved crystal spectrometer for energy calibration and spectral characterization of mammographic x-ray sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1659-1670

  Hudson, Lawrence T ^a   Deslattes, Richard D ^a   Henins, Albert ^a   Chantler, Christopher T ^a,b   Kessler, Ernest G ^a   Schweppe, John E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

curved crystal spectrometry; diffraction; high voltage; mammography; x rays

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CURVED CRYSTAL SPECTROMETER; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY; HIGH VOLTAGE; MAMMOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION; NONINVASIVE DETERMINATION; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; X RAY;

EID: 0029797154     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597845     Document Type: Article

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