CT dosimetry: getting the best from the adult Cristy phantom
1 Physics Department, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JJ, UK
2 Physics Department, The Institute of Cancer Research, Downs Road, Sutton SM2 5PT, UK
* Corresponding author: elly.castellano{at}rmh.nhs.uk
The use of geometrical phantoms for computed tomography (CT) dosimetry can incur errors in the calculation of effective dose due to the anatomically incorrect organ shapes and distributions, and unrepresentative body dimensions. A Monte Carlo program that makes use of an anatomically correct voxel phantom has been developed to calculate effective doses in CT and to compare with conventional dosimetric techniques. The code was validated against the latter by matching the phantom dimensions and simulating whole-body irradiation; agreement to within 6% was found. Effective doses were calculated for brain, lung, abdomen and pelvis CT scans for voxel phantom sizes corresponding to those of standard-sized adult, a teenager and 10% greater than those of standard-sized adult. Errors incurred by using the conventional techniques are minimised if the scan range is set by matching the fractions of radiosensitive organs that are irradiated directly. Under these circumstances, the conventional techniques will underestimate the dose to a 15 y old by up to 22% while the dose to a large subject is overestimated by up to 11%.
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