Optimum momentum transfer arguments for x-ray forward scatter imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2881-2890

  Leclair, Robert J ^a   Johns, Paul C ^b,c  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent scatter; Contrast; Low angle x ray scatter; Mammography; Momentum transfer; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); X ray scatter imaging

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOMENTUM; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; X RAY SCATTERING;

CONTRAST; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; MEDICAL X-RAY IMAGING; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SCATTERED RADIATIONS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NYLON; PLASTIC; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY;

EID: 0036913327     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1522749     Document Type: Article

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