Initial study of quasi-monochromatic x-ray beam performance for x-ray computed mammotomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1243-1250

  McKinley, Randolph L ^a,b,c   Toraai, Martin P ^a,b,c   Samei, Ehsan ^d   Bradshaw, Marques L ^a,e,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam hardening; Beam optimization; Breast CT; Exposure efficiency; Mammotomography; Monochromatic; Spectral quality

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING; BEAM OPTIMIZATION; BREAST CT; EXPOSURE EFFICIENCY; MONOCHROMATIC; SPECTRAL QUALITY;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; TISSUE;

X RAYS;

EID: 29144476573     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.857629     Document Type: Article

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