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VK-Phantom Male with 583 Structures and Female with 459 Structures, based on the Sectioned Images of a Male and a Female, for Computational Dosimetry
- Authors
- Jin Seo Park, Yong Wook Jung, Hyung-Do Choi, Ae-Kyoung Lee
- Issue Date
- 2018-05
- Citation
- Journal of Radiation Research, v.59, no.3, pp.338-380
- ISSN
- 0449-3060
- Publisher
- The Japan Radiation Research Society
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Project Code
- 18HR1600, Study on the EMF Exposure Control in Smart Society, Choi Hyung Do
- Abstract
- The anatomical structures in most phantoms are classified according to tissue properties rather than according to their detailed structures, because the tissue properties, not the detailed structures, are what is considered important. However, if a phantom does not have detailed structures, the phantom will be unreliable because different tissues can be regarded as the same. Thus, we produced the Visible Korean (VK) -phantoms with detailed structures (male, 583 structures; female, 459 structures) based on segmented images of the whole male body (interval, 1.0 mm; pixel size, 1.0 mm 2) and the whole female body (interval, 1.0 mm; pixel size, 1.0 mm 2), using house-developed software to analyze the text string and voxel information for each of the structures. The density of each structure in the VK-phantom was calculated based on Virtual Population and a publication of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. In the future, we will standardize the size of each structure in the VK-phantoms. If the VK-phantoms are standardized and the mass density of each structure is precisely known, researchers will be able to measure the exact absorption rate of electromagnetic radiation in specific organs and tissues of the whole body.
- KSP Keywords
- Electromagnetic Radiation, Female body, Mass density, Pixel size, Radiological protection, Segmented images, Text string, Tissue properties, absorption rate, whole-body
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