Influence of scatter reduction method and monochromatic beams on image quality and dose in mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3156-3164

  Moeckli, Raphaël ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a   Fiedler, Stefan ^b   Pachoud, Marc ^a   Bulling, Shelley ^a   Schnyder, Pierre ^c   Valley, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose; Image quality; Mammography; Synchrotron radiation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

DOSE; IMAGE CONTRASTS; MONOCHROMATIC BEAM; SCATTER REDUCTION METHOD; SCATTER REJECTION; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; X RAY SPECTRUM;

SYNCHROTRONS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

EID: 0346994899     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1626988     Document Type: Article

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