Technique factors and their relationship to radiation dose in pendant geometry breast CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3767-3776

  Boone, John M ^a   Kwan, Alexander L C ^a   Seibert, J Anthony ^a   Shah, Nikula ^a   Lindfors, Karen K ^a   Nelson, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Computed tomography; Mammography; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCANNING;

BREAST CT; CLINICAL MAMMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODELING; CONVERSION FACTOR; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; X-RAY TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

COPPER;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; X RAY; BIOPHYSICS; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645000127     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2128126     Document Type: Article

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