Breast dosimetry using high-resolution voxel phantoms

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 359-363

  Dance, David R ^a   Hunt, R A ^a   Bakic, P R ^b   Maidment, A D A ^b   Sandborg, M ^c   Ullman, G ^c   Carlsson, G Alm ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST DUCT; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; LIGAMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244447642     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch510     Document Type: Article

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