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Dose Assessment

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Dose calculation to carefully evaluate the absorbed dose in any exposure situation, or to reconstruct a dose after an emergency situation, could be, and in fact is, a very complex task which, in many cases, needs simulation using numerical integration.

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Notes

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    Hereinafter, dose will mean “absorbed dose” if not otherwise stated.

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    Voxel is a blend of the words volumetric and pixel. Simplifying it is as a way to represent volumetric objects as 3D bitmaps instead of vectors. A voxel represents the elementary tissue volume that corresponds to a pixel in an image.

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    Pursuant to Title 17 Sect. 105 of the United States, Code VARSKIN is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

  4. 4.

    AP = anteroposterior; PA = posteroanterior; LLAT = left lateral, and ISO = isotropic.

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Domenech, H. (2017). Dose Assessment. In: Radiation Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42671-6_6

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