Design of a novel phase contrast x-ray imaging system for mammography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4169-4185

  Munro, Peter R T ^a   Ignatyev, Konstantin ^a   Speller, Robert D ^a   Olivo, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL USE; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; ONE DIMENSION; PHASE CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGING; PHASE GRADIENT; RADIATION PHYSICS; TWO DIRECTIONS; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; X-RAY PROPAGATION; X-RAY SOURCES;

DESIGN;

X RAYS;

LIPID; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTONS; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 77958189269     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/14/014     Document Type: Article

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