The readout thickness versus the measured thickness for a range of screen film mammography and full-field digital mammography units

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 263-271

  Hauge, Ingrid H R ^a,b   Hogg, Peter ^c   Szczepura, Katy ^c   Connolly, Paul ^d   McGill, George ^e   Mercer, Claire ^f  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d INTEGRATED RADIOLOGICAL SERVICES LTD   (United Kingdom)

^e CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast compression; breast thickness; mammography

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS;

BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST THICKNESS; COMPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS; COMPRESSION FORCE; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MEASURING DEVICE; SCREEN-FILM MAMMOGRAPHIES; SIMPLE METHOD;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855465224     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3663579     Document Type: Article

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