Estimation of effective doses to adult and pediatric patients from multislice computed tomography: A method based on energy imparted

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3846-3856

  Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^a,b   Damilakis, John ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Tzedakis, Antonis ^a   Karantanas, Apostolos ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Effective dose; Energy imparted; Multislice CT; Pediatric patients

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOMS; SCANNING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; EFFECTIVE DOSE; ENERGY IMPARTED; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTISLICE CT; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; SCANNING PARAMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 33749372481     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349694     Document Type: Article

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