. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 2.

Published in final edited form as: Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2009 Dec 3;138(4):10.1093/rpd/ncp278. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncp278

Table 3.

The differences in dose values between experiment and simulation with and without breast bismuth on the body phantom (mGy).

Position	kVp	Body phantom without bismuth			Body phantom with bismuth
		Mea	Sim	Differ(%)	Mea	Sim	Differ(%)
Center	120	0.95	0.97	−2.28	0.81	0.83	−2.75
	80	0.27	0.26	5.14	0.22	0.21	4.22
12h	120	1.75	1.70	2.68	1.03	1.01	1.81
	80	0.62	0.58	6.45	0.28	0.27	3.74
3h	120	1.75	1.71	2.67	1.66	1.64	1.33
	80	0.62	0.58	6.12	0.58	0.56	2.99
6h	120	1.51	1.54	−1.95	1.50	1.53	−2.14
	80	0.51	0.52	−0.16	0.50	0.51	−3.40
9h	120	1.77	1.73	2.39	1.68	1.68	0.36
	80	0.63	0.59	7.52	0.62	0.57	8.94

Mea: Measurement, Sim: Monte Carlo simulation, Differ: Difference between measurement and simulation