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5 3. Calculational method ___________________________________________________________ The organ dose conversion factors were calculated using a computer code simulating photon transport in various media. For this procedure, three main components are necessary: a model of the radiation source, a technique to simulate the radiation interactions and energy depositions and a model of the human body. According to the irradiation conditions mentioned above, the radiation source was modelled as a point source rotating around the longitudinal axis of the body; the beam size at the axis of rotation was 1 cm in height and 50 cm in width for the symmetrical beam (for asymmetrical beams, the width was reduced on one side). To simulate the x ray spectra as they emerge from the x ray tube, a semi-empirical method was used considering the target material, inherent as well as added filtration, air path, target angle and tube voltage /8/. 3.1. Monte Carlo method The radiation transport in the phantoms was calculated using a Monte Carlo code following individual photon histories. For each single particle history, the parameters influencing its actual course are selected randomly from their probability distributions. The radiation interaction processes considered were photoelectric absorption and Compton scattering. The cross section data for the radiation interactions were taken from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory /9/. The energy was regarded as being deposited at the point of photon interaction; secondary particles were not followed ("Kerma approximation"). A more detailed description of the photon transport code used is given elsewhere /10/. The absorbed doses were obtained by dividing the total amount of energy deposited in an organ by the mass of this organ. It is to be emphasised that
6 all doses presented in this catalogue are mean doses averaged over the whole organ or tissue, not doses only to that part of the organ included in the CT slice and irradiated directly. The number of individual photon histories followed per single CT slice was 1.000.000; the Monte Carlo calculations were performed on an Intel Hypercube IPSC. 3.2. Human phantoms The models of the human body used for the calculations were the GSF tomographic paediatric models "BABY" and "CHILD" which were constructed from whole body CT data of real patients /10,11/. Each organ and tissue of these "voxel" models consists of volume elements (= voxels), derived from the CT data. Therefore, the location and shape of the organs and tissues is accurately modelled. Special care is given to the modelling of the red bone marrow as it is very sensitive to radiation and is related to leukaemia risk. The relative amount of bone marrow in each voxel within the skeleton can be estimated from the CT numbers of the respective bone pixels (= picture elements). Thus, the spatial resolution of the red bone marrow can be assessed with a resolution as fine as the voxel size, i.e. 2.9 mm 3 for the baby and 19 mm 3 for the child. The baby was eight week old when it was scanned and represents, thus, babies from new-born up to several months. The child was seven years old; it was, however, slightly small for its age and can be regarded as representative for the age between five and seven years. Being reconstructed from CT data, the phantoms are primarily made up as a matrix of rows, columns and slices containing the respective volume elements. Using the appropriate voxel dimensions with respect to width, depth and height, this matrix can be related to a Cartesian co-ordinate system. The x-axis is directed across the columns from the phantoms' right towards their left side, the y-axis is directed across the rows from the front towards the back and the z-axis across the slices from the top of the head down to the feet. The origin is at the upper right frontal corner of this ma-
Page 1 and 2: Tomographic Anthropomorphic Models
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Page 7 and 8: 2 1. Introduction _________________
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Page 17 and 18: 12 For reliable determination of or
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Page 28 and 29: 23 Appendix A Anatomical Data of th
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73 Table B.27: Skin (whole body) Me
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75 Table B.28: Small intestine Mean
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77 Table B.29: Spleen Mean organ do
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79 Table B.30: Stomach Mean organ d
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83 Table B.32: Thymus (continued) S
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85 Table B.33: Thyroid (continued)
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87 Table B.34: Tissue (whole body)
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89 Appendix C Anatomical Data of th
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91 Appendix D Organ Dose Conversion
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95 Table D. 2: Bladder (continued)
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97 Table D. 3: Brain (continued) Sl
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101 Table D. 5: Colon (ascending an
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103 Table D. 6: Colon (descending a
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111 Table D.10: Lungs (continued) S
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159 Table D.35: Thyroid Mean organ
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163 Table D.37: Uterus Mean organ d
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165 Appendix E Selected Organ Dose
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