Development of a Korean adult male computational phantom for internal dosimetry calculation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 257-264

  Park, S ^a   Lee, J K ^a   Lee, C ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY SURFACE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GALLBLADDER; HEART; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; KOREA; LIVER; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PANCREAS; PHANTOM; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKELETON; SPLEEN; STOMACH; TESTIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYMUS; THYROID GLAND; TRUNK;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 33846050124     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl042     Document Type: Article

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