Radiation doses in cone-beam breast computed tomography: A Monte Carlo simulation study

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 589-597

  Yi, Ying ^a   Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Han, Tao ^a   Zhong, Yuncheng ^a   Shen, Youtao ^a   Liu, Xinming ^a   Ge, Shuaiping ^a   You, Zhicheng ^a   Wang, Tianpeng ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; breast imaging; cone beam computed tomography; Monte Carlo; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; TISSUE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE (CBCT); CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79551695621     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3521469     Document Type: Article

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