A survey of patient doses from digital mammography systems in the UK in 2007 to 2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 365-370

  Oduko, Jennifer M ^a   Young, Kenneth C ^a,b   Burch, Anna ^c  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Medical Physics Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

digital mammography; patient dose

Indexed keywords

CR SYSTEM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GLANDULAR DOSE; OBLIQUE VIEW; PATIENT DOSE; SCREEN SYSTEMS; SIEMENS;

EID: 77954638246     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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