A curved crystal spectrometer for energy calibration and spectral characterization of mammographic x‐ray sources
作者:
Lawrence T. Hudson,
Richard D. Deslattes,
Albert Henins,
Christopher T. Chantler,
Ernest G. Kessler,
John E. Schweppe,
期刊:
Medical Physics
(WILEY Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 10
页码: 1659-1670
ISSN:0094-2405
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1118/1.597845
出版商: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Clinical efficacy of diagnostic radiology for mammographic examinations is critically dependent on source characteristics, detection efficiency, image resolution, and applied high voltage. In this report we focus on means for evaluation of source‐dependent issues including noninvasive determination of the applied high voltage, and characterization of intrinsic spectral distributions which in turn reflect the effects of added filtration and target and window contamination. It is shown that a particular form of x‐ray curved crystal spectrometry with electronic imaging can serve to determine all relevant parameters within the confines of a standard clinical exposure.
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