Extension of RPI-adult male and female computational phantoms to obese patients and a Monte Carlo study of the effect on CT imaging dose

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2441-2459

  Ding, Aiping ^a   Mille, Matthew M ^a   Liu, Tianyu ^a   Caracappa, Peter F ^a   Xu, X George ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; CT IMAGING; EFFECTIVE DOSE; LIGHTSPEED; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO STUDY; OPERATING PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUES; TRIANGULAR MESHES; TUBE CURRENTS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; NUTRITION; SCANNING; TISSUE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBESITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84859587472     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/9/2441     Document Type: Article

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