Influence of z overscanning on normalized effective doses calculated for pediatric patients undergoing multidetector CT examinations

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1163-1175

  Tzedakis, Antonis ^a   Damilakis, John ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Karantanas, Apostolos ^a   Karabekios, Spiros ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Effective dose; MD CT; Monte Carlo; Pediatric patients; z overscanning

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO RESULTS; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; Z OVERSCANNING;

PEDIATRICS;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HEAD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECK; PEDIATRICS; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THORAX; TRUNK; VALIDITY;

EID: 34147097370     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2710331     Document Type: Article

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