Digital mammography image simulation using Monte Carlo

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 568-579

  Peplow, Douglas E ^a   Verghese, Kuruvilla ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Image simulation; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS;

CLINICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION TIME; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; METHOD OF IMAGES; VARIANCE REDUCTION METHODS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034068554     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598896     Document Type: Article

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