Energy, angular and spatial distributions of primary electrons inside photoconducting materials for digital mammography: Monte Carlo simulation studies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6439-6460

  Sakellaris, T ^a   Spyrou, G ^a,b   Tzanakos, G ^c   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING TELLURIUM; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; POLYENERGETIC X-RAY SPECTRA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CADMIUM; LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; MERCURY; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 36048942776     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/21/007     Document Type: Article

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