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kVp Tool for Digital Mammography Using Commercial Metallic Foils

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Breast Imaging (IWDM 2014)

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An alternative method to evaluate the kVp on digital mammography units was developed using commercial metallic foils of different elements and an aluminum step wedge contained in a mammography test phantom developed at National University of México (UNAM) as a low cost tool. Relative response of metallic foils (Cu+5Al+8Al) / (Mo+Rh+Ag) vs kVp, for a numerical analysis and in experimental method of three FFDM systems, shows a linear behavior and permits to calculate kVp with precision of ±0.4 kV. First results are shown and further work is still in process.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Av. San Fernando 22, Sección XVI, 10400, México

    Héctor A. Galván & Yolanda Villaseñor

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  1. Department of Intelligent Image Information, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Yanagido, 501-1194, Gifu, Gifu, Japan

    Hiroshi Fujita , Takeshi Hara  & Chisako Muramatsu ,  & 

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Galván, H.A., Villaseñor, Y. (2014). kVp Tool for Digital Mammography Using Commercial Metallic Foils. In: Fujita, H., Hara, T., Muramatsu, C. (eds) Breast Imaging. IWDM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8539. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_55

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