Estimating mean glandular dose using proprietary mammography phantoms

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 205-213

  Hartley, L D ^a   Cobb, B J ^a   Hutchinson, D E ^a  

^a Hlth Dept W Australia Locked B   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DOSIMETRY; RADIATION PROTECTION; TISSUE;

MAMMOGRAPHY PHANTOMS; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE (MGD);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; X RAY FILM;

AUSTRALIA; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0032964525     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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