Estimation of mean organ doses in diagnostic radiology from Rando phantom measurements.

The Rando is a commercially available anthropomorphic phantom, marketed by Alderson Research Laboratories in the United States and widely used for obtaining detailed dose distributions in external beam radiotherapy. To obtain a mean organ dose it is necessary to combine the Rando anatomical data with experimentally determined dose distributions within the phantom. The purpose of this paper is to propose a scheme for performing this type of calculation for generating quantitative risk estimates in the field of diagnostic radiology.