Dedicated breast CT: Radiation dose for circle-plus-line trajectory

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1530-1541

  Vedantham, Srinivasan ^a   Shi, Linxi ^a   Karellas, Andrew ^a   Noo, Frederic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast; computed tomography (CT); Monte Carlo simulations; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRAJECTORIES; X RAYS;

AVERAGE GLANDULAR DOSE; BREAST; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; CONE-BEAM GEOMETRIES; DATA SUFFICIENCY CONDITION; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS; X-RAY BEAM QUALITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857884467     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3688197     Document Type: Article

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