On the need to revise the arm structure in stylized anthropomorphic phantoms in lateral photon irradiation geometry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Lee, Choonsik ^a   Lee, Choonik ^a   Lee, Jai Ki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

ANATOMICAL APPROXIMATIONS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; PHOTON IRRADIATION GEOMETRY; VOXEL PHANTOMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33751167428     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/N03     Document Type: Article

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