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A tomographic physical phantom of the newborn child with real‐time dosimetry. II. Scaling factors for calculation of mean organ dose in pediatric radiography
Author(s) -
Staton Robert J.,
Jones A. Kyle,
Lee Choonik,
Hintenlang David E.,
Arreola Manuel M.,
Williams Jonathon L.,
Bolch Wesley E.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.2256687
Subject(s) - dosimetry , imaging phantom , radiography , computed radiography , medicine , medical imaging , nuclear medicine , computed tomographic , medical physics , radiology , computed tomography , computer science , image quality , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
Following the recent completion of a tomographic physical newborn dosimetry phantom with incorporated metal‐oxide‐semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) dosimetry system, it was necessary to derive scaling factors in order to calculate organ doses in the physical phantom given point dose measurements via the MOSFET dosimeters (preceding article in this issue). In this study, we present the initial development of scaling factors using projection radiograph data. These point‐to‐organ dose scaling factors ( SF POD ) were calculated using a computational phantom created from the same data set as the physical phantom, but which also includes numerous segmented internal organs and tissues. The creation of these scaling factors is discussed, as well as the errors associated when using only point dose measurements to calculate mean organ doses and effective doses in physical phantoms. Scaling factors for various organs ranged from as low as 0.70 to as high as 1.71. Also, the ability to incorporate improvements in the computational phantom into the physical phantom using scaling factors is discussed. An comprehensive set ofSF PODvalues is presented in this article for application in pediatric radiography of newborn patients.