Implementation of radiochromic film dosimetry protocol for volumetric dose assessments to various organs during diagnostic CT procedures

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4782-4792

  Brady, Samuel ^a,b   Yoshizumi, Terry ^a,b   Toncheva, Greta ^b   Frush, Donald ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT dosimetry; GafChromic XRQA; Radiochromic film; TLD dosimetry; two dimensional dosimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; PHANTOMS; TISSUE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; GAFCHROMIC XRQA; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; RESPONSE SENSITIVITY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

CALIBRATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956308118     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3476455     Document Type: Article

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