Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray scattering for quantitative characterization of breast cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3773-3784

  Elshemey, Wael M ^a   Elsharkawy, Wafaa B ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TISSUES; COHERENT X-RAYS; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; MALIGNANT TISSUES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PEAK POSITION; PHOTON TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SCATTERING PROFILES; SCATTERING TECHNIQUES; TISSUE SAMPLES; TWO-COMPONENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE; X RAYS;

SCATTERING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAYS;

EID: 70149115503     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/12/011     Document Type: Article

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