The feasibility of patient size-corrected, scanner-independent organ dose estimates for abdominal CT exams

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 820-829

  Turner, Adam C ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   Khatonabadi, Maryam ^a   Zankl, Maria ^b   Demarco, John J ^a   Cagnon, Chris H ^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 College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Monte Carlo simulations; multidetector CT; organ dose; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCANNING;

ABDOMINAL ORGANS; DOSE ESTIMATIONS; EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; MULTIDETECTOR CT; ORGAN DOSE; PATIENT SPECIFIC; RADIOSENSITIVE ORGANS; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551676578     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533897     Document Type: Article

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