Use of the VIP-man model to calculate energy imparted and effective dose for x-ray examinations

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-182

  Winslow, Mark ^a   Huda, Walter ^b   Xu, X George ^a   Chao, T C ^a   Shi, C Y ^a   Ogden, Kent M ^b   Scalzetti, Ernest M ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy transfer; Monte Carlo; Phantom; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIP MAN MODEL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE; UNITED STATES; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; X-RAYS;

RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

EID: 1642539126     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200402000-00008     Document Type: Article

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