All about FAX: A Female Adult voXel phantom for Monte Carlo calculation in radiation protection dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5203-5216

  Kramer, R ^a   Khoury, H J ^a   Vieira, J W ^b,c   Loureiro, E C M ^c   Lima, V J M ^a   Lima, F R A ^d   Hoff, G ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Ctro Fed de Educ Tecn Pernambuco   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d Centro Regional de Ciencias Nucleares   (Brazil)

^e PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION PROTECTION; SCANNING; TISSUE;

DIGITAL IMAGES; DOSE CALCULATIONS; RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY; VOXEL PHANTOMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW; BRAZIL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 11044227792     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/23/001     Document Type: Article

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