과제정보
This study was supported by a grant of the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), funded by Ministry of Science and ICT(MSIT), Republic of Korea (No.50535-2022) and the Nuclear Safety Research Program through the Korea Foundation Of Nuclear Safety (KoFONS) using the financial resource granted by the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of Republic of Korea (No. 2104038). The authors thank Choonsik Lee of the National Cancer Institute for providing valuable data on computational phantoms.
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