Dose reduction in mammography with photon counting imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 457-465

  Thunberg, Stefan ^a   Adelöw, Leif ^a   Blom, Ola ^a   Cöster, Anders ^a   Egerström, Johan ^a   Eklund, Mathias ^a   Egnell, Per ^a   Francke, Tom ^a   Jordung, Ulf ^a   Kristoffersson, Tomas ^a   Lindman, Karin ^a   Lindqvist, Lars ^a   Marchal, Daniel ^a   Olla, Hans ^a   Penton, Erik ^a   Peskov, Vladmir ^b   Rantanen, Juha ^a   Solokov, Skiff ^a   Svedenhag, Per ^a   Ullberg, Christer ^a   Weber, Niclas ^a   more..

^a XCounter AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CDMAM phantom; Digital mammography; Dose reduction; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; GOLD; IMAGE QUALITY; ONCOLOGY; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RADIATION DETECTORS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CDMAM PHANTOMS; DOSE REDUCTION; PHOTON COUNTING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042546832     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.530649     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. S. Thunberg et al., Evaluation of a Photon Counting Mammography System, SPIE Medical Imaging 2002, 4682-22, page 202-208.
2. DR Dance, Monte Carlo calculation of conversion factors for the estimation of mean glandular breast dose, Phys. Med. Biol. 1990 Vol 35, No 9, 1211-1219
3. DR Dance et al., Additional factors for the estimation of mean glandular breast dose using the UK mammography dosimetry protocol, Phys. Med. Biol. 45 (2000) 3225-3240
4. A Thilander-Klang et al., Investigation of X-ray spectra used in mammography and their influence on image quality and absorbed dose, Paper V in thesis by A. Thilander-Klang - Diagnostic Quality and Absorbed Dose in Mammography, Gothenborg 1997
5. J M Boone et al., Scatter/primary in mammography: Comprehensive results, Med. Phys. 27 (10) October 2000.
6. Artinis Medical Systems B.V. User Manual CDMAM 3.4, 2002. www.artinis.com