Signal to noise ratio and radiation dose as function of photon energy in mammography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3336, Issue , 1998, Pages 355-363

  Huda, Walter ^a   Krol, Andrzej ^a   Jing, Zhenxue ^a   Boone, John M ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; Figure of merit; Image quality; Mammography; Monoenergetic photons; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PHOTON ENERGY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032402937     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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