Patient specific computerized phantoms to estimate dose in pediatric CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Segars, W P ^a,b,c   Sturgeon, G ^a,b,d   Li, X ^a,b   Cheng, L ^f   Ceritoglu, C ^f   Ratnanather, J T ^f   Miller, M I ^f   Tsui, B M W ^e   Frush, D ^a,b   Samei, E ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computerized phantoms; CT; Dose; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; COMPUTERIZED PHANTOMS; CT; CT DATA; DISTANCE MAP; DOSE; DOSE MEASUREMENT; EFFECTIVE DOSE; IMAGING DATA; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MORPHING; ORGAN SURFACES; PATIENT DATA; PATIENT SPECIFIC;

ERRORS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PEDIATRICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66849111942     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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