Hybrid computational phantoms of the 15-year male and female adolescent: Applications to CT organ dosimetry for patients of variable morphometry

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2366-2382

  Lee, Choonsik ^a   Lodwick, Daniel ^a   Williams, Jonathan L ^b   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT dosimetry; Hybrid phantom; NURBS; Pediatric; Voxel

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOMS; RADIATION PROTECTION;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; HYBRID PHANTOMS; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; NURBS; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; VOXEL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOMETRICS; OBESITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 44349130967     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2912178     Document Type: Article

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