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  • [Phys Med Biol.] Posture-dependent dose coefficients of mesh-type ICRP reference computational phantoms for photon external exposures.메쉬형 ICRP 표준계산팬톰을 이용하여 자세 변형에 따른 외부광자선에 의한 영향을 평가한 연구

    한양대 / 염연수, 김찬형*

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    Phys Med Biol.
  • 등재일
    2019 Apr 4
  • 저널이슈번호
    64(7):075018. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab0917.
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    Abstract
    Recently, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) developed new mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs) that provide high deformability compared with the current voxel-type reference computational phantoms of ICRP Publication 110. Taking advantage of this deformability, in the present study, the MRCPs were deformed to five non-standing postures (i.e. walking, sitting, bending, kneeling, and squatting) by developing and using a systematic posture-change method based on the as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) shape-deformation algorithm and motion-capture technology. The non-standing MRCPs were then implemented in the Geant4 Monte Carlo code to calculate a comprehensive dataset of dose coefficients (DCs) for photon external exposures. These include the dose coefficients for 29 individual organs/tissues and the dose coefficients for effective doses from 0.01 MeV to 10 GeV in the antero-posterior (AP), postero-anterior (PA), left-lateral (LLAT), right-lateral (RLAT), rotational (ROT), and isotropic (ISO) geometries. To investigate the dosimetric impact of posture, the DCs of the non-standing MRCPs were compared with those of the original MRCPs (in the standing posture). The results showed that organ/tissue doses are significantly influenced by posture, with arm position mostly influencing dose to organs/tissues in the torso region and leg position influencing dose in the pelvic region. For most cases, the gonads showed notably large differences, ranging from a few tens of percentage points to several orders of magnitude, depending on posture and irradiation geometry. The effective doses showed much smaller differences than the organ/tissue doses, but they were nonetheless significant: for example, the kneeling MRCPs in the AP geometry showed lower values at energies  <10 MeV by up to 30% and greater values at higher energies by up to 40%. The presented results indicate that not only different irradiation geometries, but also different postures might be necessary in DC calculations for reliable dose estimates for radiological protection purposes.

     


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    Yeom YS1, Han H, Choi C, Nguyen TT, Shin B, Lee C, Kim CH.
    1
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20850, United States of America.

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