Organ doses for reference adult male and female undergoing computed tomography estimated by Monte Carlo simulations

C Lee, KP Kim, D Long, R Fisher, C Tien… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To develop a computed tomography (CT) organ dose estimation method designed
to readily provide organ doses in a reference adult male and female for different scan …

Monte Carlo simulations of adult and pediatric computed tomography exams: validation studies of organ doses with physical phantoms

DJ Long, C Lee, C Tien, R Fisher, MR Hoerner… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To validate the accuracy of a Monte Carlo source model of the Siemens
SOMATOM Sensation 16 CT scanner using organ doses measured in physical …

Comparison of two types of adult phantoms in terms of organ doses from diagnostic CT procedures

H Liu, J Gu, PF Caracappa, XG Xu - Physics in Medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapidly increasing number of diagnostic computed tomography (CT) procedures in the
recent decades has spurred heightened concern over the potential risk to patients. Although …

On the use of Monte Carlo‐derived dosimetric data in the estimation of patient dose from CT examinations

K Perisinakis, A Tzedakis, J Damilakis - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this work was to investigate the applicability and appropriateness of Monte
Carlo‐derived normalized data to provide accurate estimations of patient dose from …

Organ doses for reference pediatric and adolescent patients undergoing computed tomography estimated by Monte Carlo simulation

C Lee, KP Kim, DJ Long, WE Bolch - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To establish an organ dose database for pediatric and adolescent reference
individuals undergoing computed tomography (CT) examinations by using Monte Carlo …

Organ doses, effective doses, and risk indices in adult CT: comparison of four types of reference phantoms across different examination protocols

Y Zhang, X Li, W Paul Segars, E Samei - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Radiation exposure from computed tomography (CT) to the public has increased
the concern among radiation protection professionals. Being able to accurately assess the …

Assessment of different patient‐to‐phantom matching criteria applied in Monte Carlo–based computed tomography dosimetry

EJ Stepusin, DJ Long, EL Marshall… - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To quantify differences in computationally estimated computed tomography (CT)
organ doses for patient‐specific voxel phantoms to estimated organ doses in matched …

Monte Carlo calculation of radiation dose in CT examinations using phantom and patient tomographic models

M Salvado, M Lopez, JJ Morant… - Radiation protection …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
By using a voxel-based Monte Carlo simulation technique, we developed and validated a
method to calculate radiation-absorbed dose in the computed tomography (CT) …

VirtualDose: a software for reporting organ doses from CT for adult and pediatric patients

A Ding, Y Gao, H Liu, PF Caracappa… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the development and testing of VirtualDose—a software for reporting
organ doses for adult and pediatric patients who undergo x-ray computed tomography (CT) …

Patient‐based estimation of organ dose for a population of 58 adult patients across 13 protocol categories

P Sahbaee, WP Segars, E Samei - Medical physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This study aimed to provide a comprehensive patient‐specific organ dose
estimation across a multiplicity of computed tomography (CT) examination protocols …