Patient radiation doses for electron beam CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2517-2527

  Castellano, Isabel A ^a   Dance, David R ^a   Skinner, Claire L ^a   Evans, Phil M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective dose; Electron beam CT; Monte Carlo; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; ROTATION;

COMPUTER MODELING; CONVERSION FACTOR; DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; MEASUREMENTS OF; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; STANDARD BODIES; SUBJECT ORIENTATIONS;

ELECTRON BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION;

EID: 23944488753     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1944668     Document Type: Article

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