Effective x-ray attenuation measurements with full field digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4350-4366

  Heine, John J ^a   Behera, Madhusmita ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast density; Calibration; Effective attenuation coefficients; Integral mean value theorem; Phantom measures; Radiometric

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; RADIOMETRY; X RAYS;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BREAST DENSITY; EFFECTIVE ATTENUATION; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; INTEGRAL MEAN VALUE THEOREM; RADIOMETRIC; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; X-RAY ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DIGITAL COMPUTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOMETRY; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33750568638     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2356648     Document Type: Article

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