Image quantification for radiation dose calculations-limitations and uncertainties

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 688-701

  Pereira, J M ^a   Stabin, M G ^b   Lima, F R A ^c   Guimaraes M I C C ^d   Forrester, J W ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centro Regional de Ciencias Nucleares   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

detector; dose; internal; medical radiation; phantom; scintillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77958471708     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181e28cdb     Document Type: Article

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