The feasibility of a scanner-independent technique to estimate organ dose from MDCT scans: Using CTDIvol to account for differences between scanners

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1816-1825

  Turner, Adam C ^a   Zankl, Maria ^b   Demarco, John J ^a   Cagnon, Chris H ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   Angel, Erin ^a   Cody, Dianna D ^c   Stevens, Donna M ^d   McCollough, Cynthia H ^e   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Monte Carlo simulations; Multidetector row CT; Organ dose; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCANNING;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; INDEPENDENT COEFFICIENTS; MULTI-DETECTOR ROW CT; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMALIZATION FACTORS; ORGAN DOSE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIOSENSITIVE ORGANS;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950585055     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3368596     Document Type: Article

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