Dose calculation using japanese voxel phantoms for diverse exposures

Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 737-750

  Saito, Kimiaki ^a   Sato, Kaoru ^a   Kinase, Sakae ^a   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Funabiki, Jun ^b   Takagi, Shunji ^b   Sato, Osamu ^b   Emoto, Yutaka ^c   Koga, Sukehiko ^c  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; External exposure; In vivo counting; Internal exposure; Japanese voxel phantoms; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE CALCULATION; EXTERNAL EXPOSURE; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; JAPANESE VOXEL PHANTOMS;

DOSIMETERS;

EID: 33644600366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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