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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Med Phys. 2006 Aug;33(8):3006–3017. doi: 10.1118/1.2219332

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Left: Setup for CT scanning showing thorax section sandwiched between two water-equivalent bolus sections. The sections are tightly squeezed together using the outer plastic vice. Right: Front views of the two bolus sections and thorax section containing the 9.5 mm diameter spherical reference nodules with calcium carbonate concentrations of 50 mg/cc in the lung simulating foam on one side and 100 mg/cc on the other side.