Age-dependent organ and effective dose coefficients for external photons: A comparison of stylized and voxel-based paediatric phantoms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 4663-4688

  Lee, Choonik ^a   Lee, Choonsik ^a   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR (AP); PAEDIATRIC PHANTOMS; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (UF);

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETERS; MEDICINE; PHOTONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SKELETON; SOFT TISSUE;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 33748547563     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/18/014     Document Type: Article

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