annually, many people are irradiated for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. assessment of radiation dose and its related risks to patients are important issues in radiation protection dosimetry. the complex mathematical calculations of the absorbed and effective doses are now done with computers. the calculations are performed with the help of anthropomorphic computational models of human bod...

Annually, many people are irradiated for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Assessment of radiation dose and its related risks to patients are important issues in radiation protection dosimetry. The complex mathematical calculations of the absorbed and effective doses are now done with computers. The calculations are performed with the help of anthropomorphic computational models of human bod...

Computational human phantoms are computer models used to obtain dose distributions within the human body exposed to internal or external radiation sources. In addition, they are increasingly used to develop detector efficiencies for in vivo whole-body counters. Two classes of computational human phantoms have been widely utilized for dosimetry calculation: stylized and voxel phantoms that descr...

Annually, many people are irradiated for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Assessment of radiation dose and its related risks to patients are important issues in radiation protection dosimetry. The complex mathematical calculations of the absorbed and effective doses are now done with computers. The calculations are performed with the help of anthropomorphic computational models of human bod...

This paper presents a hybrid simulator for the fast calculation of x-ray projections. Uncollided radiations are determined with a ray-driven method whereas the scattering signal is partitioned into single and multiple scattering, respectively estimated with an accelerated deterministic method and a coarse Monte Carlo simulation. The simulator takes into account the full acquisition chain, from ...

Article Hybrid polymer vessel phantoms for feasibility studies and clinical training of MRI-guided interventions was published on August 1, 2022 in the journal Current Directions Biomedical Engineering (volume 8, issue 2).

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of the hybrid RARE (rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement) readout, commonly coupled to inversion-recovery pulse sequences, on the null inversiton time (TI) of fluid and fat using both phantoms and human volunteers. METHODS Two phantoms, simulating fat (phantom A) and cerebrospinal fluid (phantom B), respectively, were imaged using a fast inversion-recov...

In this study, the influence of patient size on organ and effective dose conversion coefficients (DCCs) was investigated for a representative interventional fluoroscopic procedure-cardiac catheterization. The study was performed using hybrid phantoms representing an underweight, average and overweight American adult male. Reference body sizes were determined using the NHANES III database and pa...

Quantitative ultrasound features such as the attenuation slope, sound speed and scatterer size, have been utilized to evaluate pathological variations in soft tissues such as the liver and breast. However, the impact of variations in the sound speed and backscatter due to underlying fat content or fibrotic changes, on the attenuation slope has not been addressed. Both numerical and acoustically...