A Monte Carlo study of lung counting efficiency for female workers of different breast sizes using deformable phantoms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5527-5538

  Hegenbart, L ^a   Na, Y H ^b   Zhang, J Y ^b   Urban, M ^a   Xu, X George ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CESIUM; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CURVE FITTING; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; STANDARDS;

BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION; BREAST MASSES; DEFORMATION TECHNIQUES; DETECTOR EFFICIENCIES; FEMALE WORKERS; IN-VIVO; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; LOW ENERGIES; LUNG COUNTING; MONTE CARLO RADIATION TRANSPORT CODE; MONTE CARLO STUDY; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; TIME CONSUMING; VOXEL PHANTOMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 51849139810     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/19/017     Document Type: Article

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