A technique optimization protocol and the potential for dose reduction in digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 962-969

  Ranger, Nicole T ^a   Lo, Joseph Y ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Dose reduction; Figure of merit; Image quality; Technique optimization

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; RHODIUM ALLOYS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; DOSE REDUCTION; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); FIGURE OF MERITS; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; RADIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 77749252282     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3276732     Document Type: Article

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