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A comparison of organ doses between mathematical and voxel phantoms with the DS02 photon fluences
Jing Chen1, George D Kerr, Harry M Cullings
1Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada, 2720 Riverside Drive, Ottawa K1A 0K9, Canada. jing.chen@hc-sc.gc.ca
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to quantify dosimetric differences if modern sophisticated voxel phantoms were used in the dosimetry system DS02 rather than the mathematical phantoms. The mathematical models (ADAM and EVA) and voxel phantoms (REX and REGINA) developed in Germany allow a useful comparison as they are very close in body weight, body height and organ masses. In this study, organ doses are calculated with published fluence-to-absorbed-dose conversion coefficients derived from those two model sets for unidirectional plane beam irradiation geometries, with DS02 photon energy spectra at various distances from the hypocentre in Hiroshima. Results showed that organ doses from mathematical models generally agree well with those from voxel phantoms except for a few organs at lateral irradiation geometries and eye lenses at antero-posterior irradiation, even though there were significant differences between the two phantom sets and various uncertainties in dose calculations.
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