A high-resolution voxel phantom of the breast for dose calculations in mammography

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 406-409

  Hoeschen, Christoph ^a,b   Fill, Ute ^b   Zankl, Maria ^b   Panzer, Werner ^b   Regulla, Dieter ^b   Döhring, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; TISSUE INJURY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 21244497816     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch558     Document Type: Article

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