Dosimetry concepts for scanner quality assurance and tissue dose assessment in micro-CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 658-670

  Hupfer, Martin ^a   Kolditz, Daniel ^a   Nowak, Tristan ^a   Eisa, Fabian ^a   Brauweiler, Robert ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dosimetry; micro CT; Monte Carlo calculations; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MAMMALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING; TISSUE; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

DOSIMETRIC QUALITY ASSURANCE; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MICRO CT; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBERS; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MUS;

EID: 84856951240     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3675400     Document Type: Article

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