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Voxel Phantoms for Internal Dosimetry

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The calculation of radiation dose from internally incorporated radionuclides is based on so-called absorbed fractions (AFs) and specific absorbed fractions (SAFs). AFs specify the fraction of energy emitted by radioactivity in a given (source) organ that is absorbed in the source organ itself and in other (target) organs. SAFs are AFs divided by target organ mass.

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    Maria Zankl, Helmut Schlattl, Nina Petoussi-Henss & Christoph Hoeschen

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Zankl, M., Schlattl, H., Petoussi-Henss, N., Hoeschen, C. (2011). Voxel Phantoms for Internal Dosimetry. In: Cantone, M., Hoeschen, C. (eds) Radiation Physics for Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11327-7_14

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