Patient-specific dose estimation for pediatric chest CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5821-5828

  Li, Xiang ^a,b   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b,c   Paul Segars, W ^a,b   Sturgeon, Gregory M ^b   Colsher, James G ^a,d   Frush, Donald P ^a,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest; Computed tomography; Effective dose; Organ dose; Patient specific; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEDIATRICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

CHEST; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFECTIVE DOSE; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; MULTI-DETECTOR ARRAYS; ORGAN DOSE; PATIENT SPECIFIC;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 56749179759     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3026593     Document Type: Article

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