A validation of computational phantoms from photographic images for patient-tailored whole body counting.

This study attempted to validate a new method for patient-tailored efficiency calibration. Digital calibration with Monte Carlo simulations was used to substitute the lack of precision limitation due to the limited number of experimental phantoms in whole body counting calibration for internal dosimetry. The validity of this approach was examined by comparing the simulation results to the measured values from actual measurements using family BOMAB phantoms. The computational voxel phantoms were constructed by a reconstruction technique using AP and lateral photographic images of the BOMAB phantoms, instead of using the given specifications provided with BOMAB phantoms. Although discrepancies to a certain degree between the computational simulation and measured efficiencies do exist, the results support the new approach of being an alternative to family BOMAB phantoms. Copyright 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.