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Portrait of Predrag Bakic. Photo

Predrag Bakic

Associate Professor

Portrait of Predrag Bakic. Photo

Breast dosimetry using high-resolution voxel phantoms

Author

  • David R. Dance
  • R. A. Hunt
  • P. R. Bakic
  • A. D.A. Maidment
  • M. Sandborg
  • G. Ullman
  • G. Alm Carlsson

Summary, in English

A computer model of X-ray mammography has been developed, which uses quasi-realistic high-resolution voxel phantoms to simulate the breast. The phantoms have 400 μm voxels and simulate the three-dimensional distributions of adipose and fibroglandular tissues, Cooper's ligaments, ducts and skin and allow the estimation of dose to individual tissues. Calculations of the incident air kerma to mean glandular dose conversion factor, g, were made using a Mo/Mo spectrum at 28 kV for eight phantoms in the thickness range 40-80 mm and of varying glandularity. The values differed from standard tabulations used for breast dosimetry by up to 43%, because of the different spatial distribution of glandular tissue within the breast. To study this further, additional voxel phantoms were constructed, which gave variations of between 9 and 59% compared with standard values. For accurate breast dosimetry, it is therefore very important to take the distribution of glandular tissues into account.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

359-363

Publication/Series

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volume

114

Issue

1-3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Medical Image Processing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0144-8420