-----------ARTICLE INFORMATION--------------
JOURNAL: Medical Physics
AUTHORS: Franco Rupcich, Iacovos Kyprianou, Andreu Badal, and Taly Gilat Schmidt
TITLE: A database for estimating organ dose for coronary angiography and brain 
perfusion CT scans for arbitrary spectra and angular tube current modulation

CONTACT INFORMATION: Please email any comments, questions, or concerns to:

Franco Rupcich
franco.rupcich@.mu.edu

-----------DEPOSIT INFORAMATION---------------
TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES (INCLUDING README): 27

DESCRIPTION: This is a readme file explaining the format of the normalized dose deposition 
tables. In total, there are 26 26.txt files, each corresponding to a specific organ (or in 
some cases a material comprising several organs with similar tissue types). Each file is 
tab-delimited ascii format, with 1000 rows and 146 columns. Each row represents a projection 
angle between 0 and 360 degrees in 0.36 degree increments. Projection angle 1 (i.e., 0 
degrees) represents the anterior-posterior projection; projection angle 250 (i.e., 90 degrees)
represents the lateral projection from the phantom's left side to the right side. Each 
column represents a monoenergetic energy level between 5 and 150 keV in 1 keV increments.

To calculate the dose to a specific organ, multiply each value in the table by the number 
of photons at that monoenergy and at that projection angle and then sum all of the values. 
Thus, the organ dose is the linear combination of the values in corresponding dose table, 
with the weighting factors determined by the spectrum and number of photons at each view 
angle. For more detailed instructions, please refer to our published paper.

F. Rupcich, A. Badal, I. Kyprianou, T. G. Schmidt, `A database for estimating organ dose 
for coronary angiography and brain perfusion CT scans for arbitrary spectra and angular 
tube current modulation,' Medical Physics, 39 (9), pp. 5336-5346, 2012.

The following lists each phantom and the dose tables associated with that phantom, as well 
as the organ/tissues that each dose table represents.

Chest phantom:
chest_bone.txt --> bone, vertebrae
chest_breast.txt --> breast
chest_esophagus.txt --> esophagus
chest_heart.txt --> heart wall
chest_lung.txt --> lung
chest_rbm.txt --> red marrow
chest_skin.txt --> skin
chest_muscle.txt --> muscle

Head phantom:
head_bone.txt --> bone, mandible, patella, skull, vertebrae
head_brain_gray.txt --> gray matter, hippocampus, thalamus
head_brain_white.txt --> white matter, commissura anterior, commissura posterior
head_brain_average.txt --> cerebellum, medulla oblongata, midbrain, pons
head_eyelens.txt --> eye lens
head_skin.txt --> skin
head_muscle.txt --> muscle
head_rbm.txt --> red marrow

Tilted head phantom: Same as head phantom, but with prefix "headtilt"

CTDIvol Chest phantom:
ctdivol_chest.txt --> CTDIvol for a standard CTDI chest phantom

CTDIvol Head phantom:
ctdivol_head.txt --> CTDIvol for a standard CTDI head phantom