A method of estimating conceptus doses resulting from multidetector CT examinations during all stages of gestation

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6411-6420

  Damilakis, John ^a   Tzedakis, Antonis ^b   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Papadakis, Antonios E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

computed tomography; embryo dose; Monte Carlo simulation; radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSTETRICS; PHANTOMS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; EMBRYO DOSE; MATHEMATICAL PHANTOMS; MATHEMATICAL SIMULATIONS; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; SCANNING PARAMETERS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 78650160524     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3517187     Document Type: Article

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