Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Crotty, Dominic J ^a,b   Brady, Samuel L ^a,c,d   Jackson, D'Vone C ^a,c   Toncheva, Greta I ^a,d   Anderson, Colin E ^c,d   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a,c,d   Tornai, Martin P ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast CT; Breast dosimetry; Cone beam CT; Low dose imaging; Mammotomography; Radiochromic film; TLD

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST CT; CONE-BEAM CT; LOW DOSE; MAMMOTOMOGRAPHY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84988432380     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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