Dose conversion coefficients calculated using tomographic phantom, KTMAN-2, for X-ray examination of cardiac catheterisation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-358

  Park, Sang Hyun ^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

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE RADIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PROCESS MODEL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SUPINE POSITION; X RAY;

HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; X-RAYS;

EID: 45149091781     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm399     Document Type: Article

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