Patient-specific radiation dose and cancer risk estimation in pediatric chest CT: A study in 30 patients

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Li, Xiang ^a,b   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b   Segars, W Paul ^a,b   Sturgeon, Gregory M ^a,b,c   Colsher, James G ^a,b   Frush, Donald P ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Chest; Computed tomography; CT; Effective dose; Effective risk; Monte Carlo; Organ dose; Patient specific; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CHEST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; EFFECTIVE DOSE; MONTE CARLO; ORGAN DOSE; PATIENT SPECIFIC;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PEDIATRICS; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84873890539     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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