An empirical model of diagnostic x-ray attenuation under narrow-beam geometry

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4546-4555

  Mathieu, Kelsey B ^a   Kappadath, S Cheenu ^b   White, R Allen ^b   Atkinson, E Neely ^a   Cody, Dianna D ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

CT; half value layer; mammography; polyenergetic; radiography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAYS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; HALF-VALUE LAYER; INTERPOLATION POINTS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; POLYENERGETIC; RADIOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961094831     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3592933     Document Type: Article

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