Effect of lung volume on counting efficiency: A Monte Carlo investigation

Health Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 357-363

  Kramer, Gary H ^a   Capello, Kevin ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Counting efficiency; Monte Carlo; Phantom; Whole body counting

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; LUNG VOLUME; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMIMETICS; BODY BURDEN; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIDAL VOLUME; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 14944368278     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000152112.80491.86     Document Type: Article

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