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To evaluate the dosimetric impact of postural and anatomical differences between upright polygon mesh phantoms (FASH and MASH) and standard supine image-based voxel phantoms.

December 10, 2009Physics in Medicine and BiologyOpen Access

FASH and MASH: female and male adult human phantoms based on polygon mesh surfaces: II. Dosimetric calculations

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To evaluate the dosimetric impact of postural and anatomical differences between upright polygon mesh phantoms (FASH and MASH) and standard supine image-based voxel phantoms.
Simulated internal and external exposures to photons and electrons using the EGSnrc Monte Carlo transport code.
Modeled organ and tissue equivalent doses across upright polygon mesh phantoms (FASH/MASH) and supine voxel models (FAX06/MAX06).
Compared effective doses for external photon exposure against ICRP reference voxel phantoms (REGINA/REX) and mesh models from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI_AM/RPI_AF).
Organ and tissue equivalent doses differed between upright FASH/MASH and supine FAX06/MAX06 phantoms by up to 80% for external exposure and up to 100% for internal exposure.
Postural organ shifts and reduced soft-tissue shielding in supine voxel phantoms produced equivalent dose differences of similar magnitude between FASH/MASH and the ICRP reference models REGINA and REX.
Effective doses for external photon exposure showed close agreement between FASH/MASH and REGINA/REX, but showed substantial discrepancies when compared to RPI_AM and RPI_AF mesh phantoms.

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Computational simulation reveals significant organ dose discrepancies between standing mesh phantoms and supine voxel models, highlighting posture-related radiation protection errors.

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Krämer et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8c5ccf6ca325caf28532df https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/55/1/010

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Computational simulation reveals significant organ dose discrepancies between standing mesh phantoms and supine voxel models, highlighting posture-related radiation protection errors.

FASH and MASH: female and male adult human phantoms based on polygon mesh surfaces: II. Dosimetric calculations

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