Assessment of different computational models for generation of x-ray spectra in diagnostic radiology and mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1660-1675

  Ay, M R ^a   Sarkar, S ^b   Shahriari, M ^c   Sardari, D ^d   Zaidi, H ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; RADIOLOGY; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS;

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING; REFERENCE SPECTRUM; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

X RAYS;

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY;

EID: 21144445512     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1906126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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