Monte Carlo simulations of dose from microCT imaging procedures in a realistic mouse phantom

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 216-224

  Taschereau, Richard ^a   Chow, Patrick L ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; HARDNESS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS;

DESIRED IMAGE QUALITIES; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); RADIATION SENSITIVITY; SCREENING EXAMINATIONS; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; X-RAY PHOTON ENERGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 31044442530     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2148333     Document Type: Article

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