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Measurements of X-ray scatter signatures for some tissue-equivalent materials

Poletti et al., 2004

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Poletti M
Goncalves O
Mazzaro I
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

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In this work, we have measured the angular distribution of photons scattered (scattering signature) by five tissue-equivalent materials used in mammography and conventional radiology and four samples used in bone densitometry at the photon energy 17.44 keV …
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