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AUTHOR
Miguel Ramos
A mammographic phantom image reconstruction through Monte Carlo techniques
Mammographic phantoms are employed during quality control test in breast screening locations and other health centres. These quality controls are performed to achieve the image quality required to detect breast abnormalities, ensuring the minimum risk to radiographied women. The aim of this study is the development of a methodology to reproduce the image of a mammogram during a routine exposure in a breast screening programme. In a first step, the CIRS 11A (MAMMO PHANTOM SP01) mammographic phantom has been simplified and modelled with the Monte Carlo transport code MCNP-4c2. Different tallies (F2 and F5) have been used to score the photon flux under the phantom, and a group of aluminium lay…
Evaluation of DR and CR digital mammography systems based on phantom and breast dosimetry.
Digital mammography has been progressively introduced in screening centers, since recent evolution of CR and DR detectors. However, it is questionable which exposure conditions would be more suitable when these techniques are applied, in order to reduce the glandular breast doses, as they are related with induced carcinogenesis. Several exposures have been performed in CR and DR mammography units for comparing absorbed doses during quality control assessments and during screening, diagnosis and treatment. In the first case, the CIRS11A mammographic phantom has been used with standard exposure conditions (28 kV, AEC mode with blackening +0, 50:50 glandularity and 4.5 compressed breast thickn…