AEC for scanning digital mammography on variation of scan velocity

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3367-3374

  Åslund, Magnus ^a   Cederström, Björn ^a   Lundqvist, Mats ^b   Danielsson, Mats ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Sectra Mamea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exposure control; Mammography; Scanning; Slit; Slot

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE CONTROLS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; SCANNING; VELOCITY; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAYS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENTRANCE SURFACE AIR KERMA (ESAK); FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; NON-UNIFORM RADIATIONS; SLIT; SLOT; THEORETICAL EVALUATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; BREAST; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SCANNING DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY;

EID: 28044435613     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2089487     Document Type: Article

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