Tissue-equivalent materials for construction of tomographic dosimetry phantoms in pediatric radiology

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2072-2081

  Jones, A K ^a   Hintenlang, D E ^a   Bolch, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone equivalent; Diagnostic physics; Lung equivalent; Muscle equivalent; Pediatric radiology; Tissue equivalent material

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY;

BONE TISSUE SUBSTITUTES; DIAGNOSTIC PHYSICS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; LUNG-EQUIVALENT; MANUFACTURING CONSTRAINT; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY; TISSUE-EQUIVALENT MATERIALS;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; GROUPS BY AGE; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MATERIALS; MODEL; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ILEX COOKII;

EID: 0041887307     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1592641     Document Type: Article

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