Hybrid computational phantoms representing the reference adult male and adult female: Construction and applications for retrospective dosimetry

Health Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 292-304

  Hurtado, Jorge L ^a   Lee, Choonsik ^a   Lodwick, Daniel ^a   Goede, Timothy ^a   Williams, Jonathan L ^b   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

contamination, internal; dose assessment; dosimetry, internal; phantom

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PHYSICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PHYSICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

RHINOCEROS;

EID: 84863117311     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e318235163f     Document Type: Article

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