CdZnTe detector in mammographic x-ray spectroscopy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 3959-3972

  Miyajima, Satoshi ^a   Imagawa, Kotaro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

MAMMOGRAPHIC X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

AMERICIUM 241; CADMIUM; GERMANIUM; POTASSIUM; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ATTENUATION; CALCULATION; COMPTON EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; REVIEW; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY;

CADMIUM; ISOTOPES; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; TELLURIUM; X-RAYS; ZINC;

EID: 0037153613     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/22/304     Document Type: Review

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