The myth of the 50-50 breast

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5437-5443

  Yaffe, M J ^a   Boone, J M ^b   Packard, N ^b   Alonzo Proulx, O ^a   Huang, S Y ^b   Peressotti, C L ^a   Al Mayah, A ^c   Brock, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast composition; Breast CT; Breast density; Dosimetry; Mammography; Mean glandular dose

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAY SCREENS;

BREAST CT; BREAST DENSITY; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FOUR-GROUP; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES; XRAY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TISSUE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUMETRY; X RAY;

EID: 72049102861     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3250863     Document Type: Article

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