A tomographic physical phantom of the newborn child with real-time dosimetry. II. Scaling factors for calculation of mean organ dose in pediatric radiography
- 24 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 33 (9), 3274-9
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.2256687
Abstract
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 of SF(POD) values is presented in this article for application in pediatric radiography of newborn patients.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (RO1 HD38932)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (RO1 EB00267)
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