Dosimetric characterization of a dedicated breast computed tomography clinical prototype

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4110-4120

  Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Feng, Steve Si Jia ^a,b   D'Orsi, Carl J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast CT; digital mammography; dosimetry; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

BREAST CT; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT; EXPOSURE DISTRIBUTION; HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITION; MAMMOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149482580     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3457331     Document Type: Article

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