Comparison of breast doses for digital tomosynthesis estimated from patient exposures and using PMMA breast phantoms

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7361 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 316-321

  Dance, David R ^a,b   Strudley, Celia J ^a   Young, Kenneth C ^a,b   Oduko, Jennifer M ^a   Whelehan, Patsy J ^c   Lindsay Mungutroy, E H ^d  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d Jarvis Breast Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

average glandular dose; breast dosimetry; digital breast tomosynthesis; PMMA phantoms

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GLANDULAR DOSE; BREAST PHANTOM; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; FIRST SYSTEMS; MEAN VALUES; PMMA PHANTOMS;

DOSIMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864830641     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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