Skeletal dosimetry for external exposure to photons based on νcT images of spongiosa from different bone sites

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 6697-6716

  Kramer, R ^a   Khoury, H J ^a   Vieira, J W ^b,c   Kawrakow, I ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CELLS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

RED BONE MARROW (RBM); SPONGIOSA; VOXELS;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; BONE MARROW; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIGHT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOBIOLOGY; SKELETON; THICKNESS; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 35848948857     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/22/010     Document Type: Article

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