Reducing radiation dose to selected organs by selecting the tube start angle in MDCT helical scans: A Monte Carlo based study

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5654-5664

  Zhang, Di ^a   Zankl, Maria ^b   Demarco, John J ^a   Cagnon, Chris H ^a   Angel, Erin ^a   Turner, Adam C ^a   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; LOCATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DOSE REDUCTION; DOSE VARIATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; RADIOSENSITIVE ORGANS; SINUSOIDAL PATTERNS;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SIMULATION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 72049103388     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3259773     Document Type: Article

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