The UF series of tomographic computational phantoms of pediatric patients

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3537-3548

  Lee, Choonik ^a   Williams, Jonathan L ^b   Lee, Choonsik ^a   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pediatrics; Radiation dosimetry; Tomographic phantom; Voxel phantom

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PEDIATRICS; PHOTONS; RADIATION;

ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MATHEMATICAL PHANTOMS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) MEDICAL IMAGES; TOMOGRAPHIC; VOXEL PHANTOMS;

PHANTOMS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31844431612     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2107067     Document Type: Article

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