Estimation of organ and effective dose due to Compton backscatter security scans
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Estimation of organ and effective dose due to Compton backscatter security scans.
PURPOSE To estimate organ and effective radiation doses due to backscatter security scanners using Monte Carlo simulations and a voxelized phantom set. METHODS Voxelized phantoms of male and female adults and children were used with the GEANT4 toolkit to simulate a backscatter security scan. The backscatter system was modeled based on specifications available in the literature. The simulation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Physics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0094-2405
DOI: 10.1118/1.4718680