Monte Carlo modeling for dose assessment in cone beam CT for oral and maxillofacial applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, G ^a   Marshall, N ^a   Bogaerts, R ^a   Jacobs, R ^a   Bosmans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

anatomical phantoms; cone beam CT; dose calculation; Monte Carlo; oral imaging

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MAXILLOFACIAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXILLA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUTH; MOUTH MUCOSA; NECK; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE; TOOTH; UNCERTAINTY; FACE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE; MAXILLA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUTH; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84880237066     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4810967     Document Type: Article

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