Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference (한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집)

Korean Society of Medical Physics (한국의학물리학회)
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Monte Carlo Studies on Mammography System

  • Ho, Dong-Su (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Hyoung-Koo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Choe, Bo-Young (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Kim, Song-Hyun (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Kim, Do-Il (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Published : 2002.09.01
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Abstract

In order to understand and quantitatively analyze the physical phenomena and behavior of each component of mammography system during the breast imaging, we simulated mammography imaging using Monte Carlo simulation codes. MCNP4B code was used for our simulation purpose, and we investigated the effect of target material, anode angle, filtration, peak voltage and exposure on the image quality of mammograms. From the simulation results we expect that optimized operation condition of mammography system can be found.

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