The relationship between the attenuation properties of breast microcalcifications and aluminum

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1057-1068

  Zanca, F ^a   Van Ongeval, C ^b   Marshall, N ^a   Meylaers, T ^a   Michielsen, K ^a   Marchal, G ^b   Bosmans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; ANGULAR COEFFICIENTS; ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; BREAST BIOPSIES; BREAST MICROCALCIFICATIONS; CLINICAL ROUTINE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ENERGY RANGES; EXPOSURE PARAMETERS; FIGURE OF MERIT; GLANDULAR DOSE; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NOISE RATIO; NON-PALPABLE LESIONS; OPTIMAL BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION STUDIES; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; REGRESSION LINES; SMALL SIZE; SPECTRAL OPTIMIZATION; TEST OBJECT; TISSUE DENSITY; X-RAY ATTENUATION; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); EXTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; X RAY TUBES;

ALUMINUM;

ALUMINUM; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIATION DOSAGE; SELENIUM;

EID: 76149137269     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/4/010     Document Type: Article

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