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. 2012 Jul;39(7Part2):4615-4616.
doi: 10.1118/1.4725757.

Reply to "Comment on the 'Report of AAPM TG 204: Size-specific dose estimates (SSDE) in pediatric and adult body CT examinations'" [AAPM Report 204, 2011]

John M Boone  1
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Reply to "Comment on the 'Report of AAPM TG 204: Size-specific dose estimates (SSDE) in pediatric and adult body CT examinations'" [AAPM Report 204, 2011]

John M Boone. Med Phys. 2012 Jul.
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Keywords: Computed tomography; Computerised tomographs; Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific applications; Dose-volume analysis; Dosimetry; Editorials; Image data processing or generation, in general; Lungs; Medical image segmentation; Medical imaging; PACS; Physicists; Radiologists; Tissues; biological tissues; computerised tomography; dosimetry; image segmentation; lung; medical image processing; radiology.

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Figure 1
Image as screen captured.
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Figure 2
Histogram of screen capture, with threshold value (T) at GS-67 - placed to segment air from tissue in the image.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Image with threshold at a gray scale value of 67.
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References

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