Quantification of scattered radiation in projection mammography: Four practical methods compared

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3167-3180

  Salvagnini, Elena ^a,b   Bosmans, Hilde ^a   Struelens, Lara ^b   Marshall, Nicholas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

beam stop; edge spread function (ESF); mammography; modulation transfer function (MTF); Monte Carlo; scatter; scatter to primary ratio (SPR)

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; ESTERS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCATTERING;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; ANTI-SCATTER GRIDS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; EDGE SPREAD FUNCTION; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); SCATTER POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SCATTER-TO-PRIMARY RATIO; SCATTERED RADIATIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84863509382     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4711754     Document Type: Article

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