Results of a European dose survey for mammography

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 199-203

  Michielsen, Koen ^a   Jacobs, J ^a   Lemmens, K ^a   Nens, J ^a   Zoetelief, J ^b   Faulkner, K ^c   Bosmans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Quality Assurance Reference Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; EUROPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REFERENCE VALUE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; X RAY FILM;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFERENCE VALUES; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 55249089957     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn152     Document Type: Article

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