Modelling the elastic scattering in diagnostic radiology: The importance of structure form factors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1907-1916

  Cardoso, S C ^a   Goncalves O D ^a   Schechter, H ^a   Eichler, J ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELASTIC MODULI; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

MULTIPLE SCATTERING;

RADIOLOGY;

WATER;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTATION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WATER SAMPLING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 0038783642     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/13/304     Document Type: Article

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