A boundary-representation method for designing whole-body radiation dosimetry models: Pregnant females at the ends of three gestational periods - RPI-P3, -P6 and -P9

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7023-7044

  Xu, X George ^a   Taranenko, Valery ^a   Zhang, Juying ^a   Shi, Chengyu ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION; CONSTRUCTIVE SOLID GEOMETRY (CSG); GESTATIONAL PERIODS; MESH ORGAN MODELS; PHOTON IRRADIATION;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GEOMETRY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 36348984478     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/017     Document Type: Article

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