Fetal dose assessment from invasive special procedures by Monte Carlo methods

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1714-1720

  Metzger, Robert L ^a   Van Riper, Kenneth A ^a  

^a Radiation Safety Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D VISUALIZATION; BEAM LOCATION; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; IMAGING SEQUENCE; MONTE CARLO RADIATION TRANSPORT CODE; SCATTER RADIATION; TEMPLATE-BASED;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032779498     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598663     Document Type: Article

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