Oedipe: Software for fast construction of computational phantoms and MCNPX calculation in internal dosimetry

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 220-226

  Lamart, S ^a   Robert, C ^a   Blanchardon, E ^a   Molokanov, A ^a,b   Lechaftois, X ^c   Broggio, D ^a   Desbree A ^a   Franck, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Biokinetics; In vivo counting; Monte Carlo calculation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES; TISSUE;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; BIOKINETICS; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; IN-VIVO; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; NUMERICAL CALIBRATION; RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 69049114737     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT09-A9129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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