Survey of mammography practice in Croatia: Equipment performance, image quality and dose

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 535-540

  Faj, Dario ^a   Posedel, Dario ^b   Štimac, Damir ^a   Ivezić, Zdravko ^a   Kasabašić, Mladen ^a   Ivković, Ana ^a   Kubelka, Dragan ^c   Ilakovac, Vesna ^d   Brnić, Zoran ^e   Bjelac, Olivera Ciraj ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b Ekoteh Ltd   (Croatia)

^c State Office for Radiation Protection   (Croatia)

^d JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^e University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CROATIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMINANCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMICONDUCTOR;

BODY BURDEN; CROATIA; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 57249090317     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn283     Document Type: Article

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