Radiation dose affected by mammographic composition and breast size: first application of a radiation dose management system for full-field digital mammography in Korean women

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• 作者：Ji Eun Baek ; Bong Joo Kang ; Sung Hun Kim…
• 关键词：Radiation dose ; Digital mammography ; FFDM
• 刊名：World Journal of Surgical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1071KB
• 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1477-7819
• 卷排序：15

文摘

BackgroundRelative to Western women, Korean women show several differences in breast-related characteristics, including higher rates of dense breasts and small breasts. We investigated how mammographic composition and breast size affect the glandular dose during full-field digital mammography (FFDM) in Korean women using a radiation dose management system.