Date of Award

1-1-2014

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

College/School/Department

Department of Physics

Content Description

1 online resource (v, 80 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Carolyn MacDonald

Committee Members

Ariel Caticha, Kevin Knuth

Keywords

Coherent Scatter, Mammography, Physics, x-ray, Breast, Diagnostic imaging, Three-dimensional imaging in medicine

Subject Categories

Physics

Abstract

Traditional x-ray images are good at distinguishing between materials with different absorption coefficients. The problem with mammography stems from the fact that there is very low contrast between cancerous and normal tissue types. Since cancerous and normal tissue have similar absorption coefficients, using conventional x-ray imaging to distinguish between the two is difficult. Coherent scatter is an alternative method to detect cancerous material within human breast tissue. Coherent scatter can distinguish between tissue types, if the intermolecular spacing of the tissues differ.

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