Effect of using tungsten-anode X-ray tubes on dose and image quality in full-field digital mammography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 522-529

  Oduko, Jennifer M ^a   Young, Kenneth C ^a,b   Gundogdu, Ozcan ^a   Alsager, Abdulaziz ^b  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Dose; FFDM; Image quality; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTRACTS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ELECTRON TUBES; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; RANGE FINDING; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUNGSTEN;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DOSE; FFDM;

X RAY TUBES;

EID: 51049092944     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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