Mammography practice in Serbia: Evaluation and optimisation of image quality and the technical aspects of the mammographic imaging chain

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 293-297

  Kosutic, D ^a   Ciraj Bjelac, O ^a   Arandjic, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERBIA; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERBIA;

EID: 77953331716     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq096     Document Type: Article

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