Scatter/primary in mammography: Monte Carlo validation

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1818-1831

  Boone, John M ^a   Cooper III, Virgil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Mamography; Monte Carlo; Scatter to primary ratio; X ray scatter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION; DELTA FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

CONVOLUTION METHODS; MAMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO PROCEDURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; PHANTOM THICKNESS; SCATTER POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; SIMULATION PROCEDURES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

EID: 0033860358     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1287052     Document Type: Article

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