title: Estimation of absorbed doses from paediatric cone-beam CT scans: MOSFET measurements and Monte Carlo simulations.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to establish a dose estimation tool with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. A 5-y-old paediatric anthropomorphic phantom was computed tomography (CT) scanned to create a voxelised phantom and used as an input for the abdominal cone-beam CT in a BEAMnrc/EGSnrc MC system. An X-ray tube model of the Varian On-Board Imager((R)) was built in the MC system. To validate the model, the absorbed doses at each organ location for standard-dose and low-dose modes were measured in the physical phantom with MOSFET detectors; effective doses were also calculated. In the results, the MC simulations were comparable to the MOSFET measurements. This voxelised phantom approach could produce a more accurate dose estimation than the stylised phantom method. This model can be easily applied to multi-detector CT dosimetry.
authors.affiliation: Medical Physics Graduate Program, Duke University, Durham NC 27705, USA.
authors.forename: Sangroh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Terry T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Yoshizumi
authors.forename: Greta
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Toncheva
authors.forename: Donald P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Frush
authors.forename: Fang-Fang
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Yin
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001822:Body Burden; D002648:Child; D003198:Computer Simulation; D054893:Cone-Beam Computed Tomography; D006801:Humans; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*