Feasibility of in vivo tissue characterisation by Compton scattering profile measurements (original) (raw)

1992

Abstract

ABSTRACT The authors investigate a technique for the characterisation of biological tissues, based on energy analysis of Compton scattered photons. The incident beam consists of 59.54 keV photons and a backscatter geometry is used. Compared to the technique based on the ratio of photons coherently scattered due to the Rayleigh effect and those incoherently scattered due to the Compton effect, the present technique provides similar results for mineral content evaluation, with an error lower than 1%. However it allows the determination of fat content in a soft tissue matrix - even in the cases in which the Rayleigh peaks is not measurable - although the error can rise up to 3%.

Agostino Tartari hasn't uploaded this paper.

Let Agostino know you want this paper to be uploaded.

Ask for this paper to be uploaded.