Backscatter factors for mammography calculated with Monte Carlo methods

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 771-781

  Kramer, R ^a   Drexler, G ^a   Petoussi Henss, N ^b   Zankl, M ^b   Regulla, D ^b   Panzer, W ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035109110     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/3/312     Document Type: Article

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