The development and application of the visible Chinese human model for Monte Carlo dose calculations

• Published in: Health physics (1958) Vol. 94; no. 2; p. 118
• Main Authors: Zhang, Guozhi, Luo, Qingming, Zeng, Shaoqun, Liu, Qian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2008
• Subjects: Adult; China; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Male; Monte Carlo Method; Phantoms, Imaging; Photons; Radiometry - methods; Visible Human Projects - statistics & numerical data; China

A new whole-body computational phantom, the Visible Chinese Human (VCH), was developed using high-resolution transversal photographs of a Chinese adult male cadaver. Following the segmentation and tridimensional reconstruction, a voxel-based model that faithfully represented the average anatomical c...