Scatter radiation in digital tomosynthesis of the breast

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 564-576

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^a   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   D'Orsi, Carl J ^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; Monte Carlo; Scatter; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SCATTERING; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

BREAST; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; SCATTER POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846643985     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2428404     Document Type: Article

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