Flat and curved crystal spectrography for mammographic X-ray sources

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 69, Issue 823, 1996, Pages 636-649

  Chantler, C T ^a,b   Deslattes, R D ^b   Henins, A ^b   Hudson, L T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ERROR; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY;

EID: 0030059175     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/0007-1285-69-823-636     Document Type: Article

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