Table 2.

Specimen thicknesses and imaging parameters for quality compared images.

	DM					DBT				Dose DBT/DM
Thickness	kV	mAs	Filter	MGD	ki	kV	mAs	MGD	ki
15	28	32	Rh	0.70	0.85	29	45	1.03	1.74	1.48
20	29	40	Rh	0.88	1.23	29	45	0.96	1.77	1.08
23	28	40	Ag	0.73	1.42	29	40	0.81	1.56	1.12
25	29	56	Rh	1.14	1.76	31	63	1.54	3.03	1.35
26	29	40	Rh	0.80	1.26	29	40	0.78	1.6	0.97
27	31	56	Ag	1.34	2.66	31	60	1.42	2.9	1.06
30	29	56	Rh	1.04	1.79	29	50	0.91	2.03	0.88
32	29	54	Ag	0.96	2.27	29	56	0.98	2.24	1.02
35	29	63	Rh	1.08	2.04	31	60	1.27	2.99	1.17
39	29	63	Rh	1.03	2.07	29	63	1.04	3.18	1.01
41	31	63	Rh	1.20	2.44	29	63	1.02	2.66	0.85
42	29	32	Rh	0.50	1.06	31	63	1.26	3.26	2.50
46	27	35	Rh	0.43	0.94	29	50	0.77	2.14	1.81
56	29	63	Rh	0.88	2.20	29	63	0.89	2.8	1.01
66	31	63	Ag	1.07	3.35	31	63	1.05	3.41	0.98
71	29	63	Ag	0.83	2.90	31	63	1.02	3.55	1.23
			Mean	0.91			Mean	1.05	Mean	1.22
			STD	0.25			STD	0.22	STD	0.42

In all studies, the target was tungsten and in DBT only Ag filtration was used. MGD and incident air kerma (k_i) were estimated by applying the Dance model.