Computation of the glandular radiation dose in digital tomosynthesis of the breast

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 221-232

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   D'Orsi, Carl ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Digital mammography; Dosimetry; Monte Carlo; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

BREAST; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; MAMMOGRAPHIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 33845927292     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2400836     Document Type: Article

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