Determination of close-area product from panoramic radiography using a pencil ionization chamber: Normalized data for the estimation of patient effective and organ doses

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 708-714

  Perisinakis, K ^a   Damilakis, J ^a   Neratzoulakis, J ^b   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dose area product; Dose width product; Effective dose; Panoramic radiology

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

DOSE-AREA PRODUCT; DOSE-WIDTH PRODUCT; EFFECTIVE DOSE; HELSINKI , FINLAND; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBERS; RANDO ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOM; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GONAD DOSE; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GONAD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

BODY BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GONADS; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 1942484800     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1650686     Document Type: Article

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