Charged particle therapy has been largely driven and influenced by nuclear physics. The
increase in energy deposition density along the ion path in the body allows reducing the …

Radiation dose calculation using models of the human anatomy has been a subject of great
interest to radiation protection, medical imaging, and radiotherapy. However, early pioneers …

With advances in computer performance, the use of high-resolution voxel models of the
entire human body has become more frequent in numerical dosimetries of electromagnetic …

Phantoms, devices that represent the human body, have been used in medical physics and
health physics since the beginning. Soon after the discovery of X-rays, news of the medical …

Computational models of human anatomy are mathematical representations of human
anatomy designed to be used in dosimetry calculations. They have been used in dosimetry …

Abstract The MAX (Male Adult voXel) phantom has been developed from existing
segmented images of a male adult body, in order to achieve a representation as close as …

Conversion Coefficients for Radiological Protection Quantities for External Radiation
Exposures - CH Clement, N. Petoussi-Henss, WE Bolch, KF Eckerman, A. Endo, N. Hertel, J …

Over the past decades, significant improvements have been made in the field of
computational human phantoms (CHPs) and their applications in biomedical engineering …

The radiation protection program at any institution must not be a static entity, but one that is
continually being scrutinized and evaluated to introduce continuous quality improvements …

Estimating the dose delivered to the patient in X-ray computed tomography (CT)
examinations is not a trivial task. Monte Carlo (MC) methods appear to be the method of …