Radiation dose to organs and tissues from mammography: Monte Carlo and phantom study

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 434-443

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; BREAST; CLAVICLE; COLON; ESOPHAGUS; EYE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GALLBLADDER; HEART; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LEG; LENS; LIVER; LUNG; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OVARY; PANCREAS; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKULL; SPINE; SPLEEN; STERNUM; THORAX; THYMUS; UTERUS; X RAY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 39549092117     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2462070256     Document Type: Article

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