in development process of the pregnant hybrid phantom series. The differences in shape and location of the displaced maternal organs caused by enlarging uterus were also taken into account. The CT and MR images of fetus specimens and pregnant patients of various...

Introduction: In the present work, the steps of constructing hybrid phantoms have been studied. Mathematical and voxel phantoms are two various kinds of computational human body models which used in dose evaluations and estimations. In mathematical...

of phantoms, yet the

latest type is hybrid phantom which has been introduced to the scientific community

in recent years. Hybrid phantom is the connection between mathematical and voxel

phantoms. They retain both the anatomic realism...

and an underestimated fetal thyroid dose of the previous studies compared to the values based on the current hybrid phantom....

computational models of human body called phantoms and Monte Carlo codes (MCNP). Latest type of phantoms is hybrid phantom which has been introduced in 2007. Hybrid phantoms retain both the anatomic realism of voxel phantoms and the flexibility of mathematical...