Experimental and theoretical energy and angular dependencies of scattered radiation in the mammography energy range
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 10 (5) , 664-668
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.595369
Abstract
Predicted scatter characteristics from a Monte Carlo code have been compared to an experiment for a 4.0-cm-thick acrylic resin (Plexiglas) phantom and 27.3-keV radiation. The results show generally good agreement, except that in the scattered spectra the predictions appear to underestimate the proportion of photons in the low-energy tail of the scattered radiation. The angular dependency of the energy-integrated scattered radiation fluence is in excellent agreement with the predictions.Keywords
Funding Information
- Bureau of Radiological Health (223-80-6013)
- U.S. Public Health Service (CA 24806)
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