Construction of a computed tomographic phantom for a japanese male adult and dose calculation system

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-76

  Saito, K ^a   Wittmann, Alfred ^b   Koga, Sukehiko ^c   Ida, Yoshihiro ^c   Kamei, Tetsuya ^c   Funabiki, J ^d   Zankl, Maria ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035014195     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110000082     Document Type: Article

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