title: Head calibration phantoms for actinides: measurements and simulations.
abstract: The paper deals with the physical skull phantoms Bundesinstitut fuer Strahlenschutz and BPAM-001, which are used in order to calibrate in vivo detection systems for estimation of (241)Am activity in the skeleton. Their voxel models were made and used in the Monte Carlo simulations. The results of the simulation were compared with measurements and reasonable agreement was observed. Several aspects such as materials and source distributions used in the models were discussed.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 11519 Prague, Czech Republic. tomas.vrba@fjfi.cvut.cz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vrba
mesh_terms: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements / Q000032:analysis*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000378:metabolism; D002138:Calibration; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements