Compact x-ray sources for mammographic applications: Monte Carlo simulations of image quality

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5149-5161

  Oliva, P ^a   Golosio, B ^a   Stumbo, S ^a   Bravin, A ^b   Tomassini, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mammography; Quasimonochromatic spectra; Thomson scattering; X ray spectra

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SOURCES; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; X RAY APPARATUS;

COMPACT X-RAY SOURCES; HIGHER ORDER HARMONICS; MAMMOGRAPHIC PHANTOMS; POLYCHROMATIC X-RAYS; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; THOMSON SCATTERING; X-RAY SPECTRA;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENERGY RESOURCE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70350714782     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3245876     Document Type: Article

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