Glandularity and mean glandular dose determined for individual women at four regional breast cancer screening units in The Netherlands
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Glandularity and mean glandular dose determined for individual women at four regional breast cancer screening units in the Netherlands.
The nationwide breast cancer screening programme using mammography has been in full operation in The Netherlands since 1997. There is concern that the mean glandular doses due to mammography might be differing between different regions of the country due to differences in glandularity and compressed breast thickness. To investigate regional differences, glandularity, compressed breast thickness...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics in Medicine and Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0031-9155,1361-6560
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/7/012