Customisation of a Monte Carlo dosimetry tool for dental cone-beam CT systems

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 378-385

  Stratis, A ^a   Zhang, G ^b   Lopez Rendon, X ^a   Jacobs, R ^a   Bogaerts, R ^b   Bosmans, H ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84979010679     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncw024     Document Type: Article

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