Development of an age-scalable 3D computational phantom in DICOM standard for late effects studies of childhood cancer survivors.
Aashish Chandra GuptaSuman ShresthaConstance A OwensSusan A SmithYing QiaoRita E WeathersPeter A BalterStephen F KryRebecca M HowellPublished in: Biomedical physics & engineering express (2020)
We successfully adapted our phantom model from the FORTRAN language to DICOM standard and validated its geometric consistency. We also demonstrated that our phantom model is representative of population height data for infant to adult, but that the organ masses are smaller than in other reference phantoms and need further refinement. Our age-scalable computational phantom modeled in DICOM standard can be scaled to any age at RT and used within a commercial TPS to retrospectively reconstruct doses from contemporary RT in childhood cancer survivors.