Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality among middle aged women. Survival and recovery depend on early diagnosis. At present mammography is one of the most reliable methods for early breast cancer detection. However relevance of diagnosis is highly correlated to image quality of the mammographic system. Hence periodic controls in mammographic facilities are necessary in order to ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine whether 2-dimensional (2D) images produced from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images taken with an iCAT scanner (Imaging Sciences International, Hatfield, Pa) can substitute for traditional cephalograms. METHODS Lateral and frontal cephalograms were taken of a radiographic phantom with known dimensions. Landmarks on the 2D images were...

The 120,000 X-ray sources detected in the RASS II processing of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey are correlated with the 14,315 IRAS galaxies selected from the IRAS Point Source Catalogue: 372 IRAS galaxies show X-ray emission within a distance of 100 arcsec from the infrared position. By inspecting the structure of the Xray emission in overlays on optical images we quantify the likelihood that the X-r...

background: the purpose of this study is to fabricate inexpensive in-house low cost homogeneous and heterogeneous human equivalent thorax phantom and assess the dose accuracy of the treatment planning systems (tps) calculated values for different lung treatment dosimetery. it is compared with thermoluminescent dosimeter (tld) measurement. materials and methods: homogeneous and heterogeneous tho...

background: this study assessed the clinical usefulness of the solid phantom, which may compensate for the disadvantages of the water phantom, by comparing the radiological doses between the two depending on their depths. materials and methods: the experimental equipment used was a linear accelerator for medical use, water phantom, solid phantom, farmer type ion chamber and electrometer. the di...