Differences in effective dose and energy imparted estimation from PA-AP, RLAT-LLAT projections in pediatric full spine x-ray examination using the Monte Carlo technique

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-297

  Gialousis, George I ^a   Yakoumakis, Emmanouel N ^a   Papadopoulou, Despina I ^a   Makri, Triantafillia K ^a,b   Yakoumakis, Nikolaos E ^c   Dimitriou, Panayiotis A ^d   Georgiou, Evangelos K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Ag Sofia Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

CARCINOGENESIS; ENTRANCE SURFACE DOSE (ESD);

X RAY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIMULATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY;

BONE AND BONES; BREAST; CHILD; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPINE;

EID: 32544454676     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/2/007     Document Type: Article

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