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A comparison of pediatric and adult CT organ dose estimation methods

Abstract Background Computed Tomography (CT) contributes up to 50% of the medical exposure to the United States population. Children are considered to be at higher risk of developing radiation-induced tumors due to the young age of exposure and increased tissue radiosensitivity. Organ dose estimatio...

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Hauptverfasser: Yiming Gao, Brian Quinn, Usman Mahmood, Daniel Long, Yusuf Erdi, Jean St. Germain, Neeta Pandit-Taskar, X. George Xu, Wesley E. Bolch, Lawrence T. Dauer
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BMC 2017-04-01
Schriftenreihe:BMC Medical Imaging
Schlagworte:
CT dosimetry
Organ dose
Effective dose
Pediatric
Adult
Monte Carlo
Online-Zugang:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12880-017-0199-3
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