Monte Carlo and experimental internal radionuclide dosimetry in RANDO head phantom

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 465-472

  Ghahraman Asl, Ruhollah ^a   Nasseri, Shahrokh ^a,b   Parach, Ali Asghar ^c   Zakavi, Seyed Rasoul ^d   Momennezhad, Mehdi ^a,d   Davenport, David ^e  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e Department of Hematology Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed dose; GATE; Internal dosimetry; RANDO phantom

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ABSORBED DOSE; ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIRECTION OF MOVEMENTS; GATE; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSIONS; RANDO PHANTOM; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

TECHNETIUM 99M; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION MONTE CARLO; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING PHANTOM; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERNAL RADIONUCLIDE DOSIMETRY; UNCERTAINTY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; HEAD; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 84942366403     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: 18795447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-015-0367-0     Document Type: Article

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