RPI-AM and RPI-AF, a pair of mesh-based, size-adjustable adult male and female computational phantoms using ICRP-89 parameters and their calculations for organ doses from monoenergetic photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5885-5908

  Zhang, Juying ^a   Na, Yong Hum ^a   Caracappa, Peter F ^a   Xu, X George ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ADJUSTABILITY; ADULT FEMALES; ANATOMICAL FEATURES; ANTERIOR POSTERIORS; BODY POSTURES; BOUNDARY REPRESENTATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; DEFORMABILITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE CONVERSION; EFFECTIVE DOSE; FLUENCES; INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTIONS; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MONOENERGETIC; MONTE CARLO CODES; PARALLEL BEAMS; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON ENERGY; PHOTON SOURCES; POLYGONAL MESHES; RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; RELATIVE ERRORS; SHAPE AND SIZE; SURFACE MESH; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; MESH GENERATION; PHOTONS; RADIATION SHIELDING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ANATOMY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; ERROR; GEOMETRY; LUNG; ORGAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REFERENCE VALUE; ROTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POSTURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 71049139013     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/19/015     Document Type: Article

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