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. 2011 Jan 20;38(2):820–829. doi: 10.1118/1.3533897

Table 3.

Percent coverage of each partially irradiated organ (i.e., percentage of organ volume located within the abdominal scan region). The last two columns report the average and standard deviation across patient models. A dash indicates that the organ was not included for the given patient model.

  Baby Child Golem Frank Visible Human Irene Donna Helga Avg SD
Colon 87 91 83 80 76 76 81 98 84 8
Small intestine 100 98 81 65 90 39 58 87 77 21
Heart 59 86 53 50 50 15 51 61 53 19
Ovaries 100 100 0 0 0 40 55
Uterus 100 95 0 0 0 39 53
Lung 45 50 32 30 30 16 29 43 34 11
Esophagus 40 33 42 37 8 29 39 32 12
Glandular breast tissue 0 0 6 88 61 31 41
Skin 38 23 20 31a 27a 16 19 38a 26 9
Muscle tissue 31 28 19 30a 22a 19 20 26a 24 5
Red bone marrow 26 21 18 19a 24a 16 18 28a 21 4
Bone surface 27 22 19 20a 25a 17 19 29a 22 4
Bladder 54 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 19
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Percent coverage value is artificially high because a portion of the actual organ anatomy was truncated when the partial-body model was generated.