AAPM tutorial. Mammography as a radiographic system.

The author introduces the 15th Annual Symposium on Basic Physics. In the first of this series of tutorials on the physics of mammography, the basic radiologic physics principles applied in radiographic imaging equipment are discussed in terms of a mammographic system. The analysis is intended to assist in the understanding of mammography in particular and radiography in general. Mammographic systems differ from those of general radiography in several important details because of the differing clinical demands.