ABSTRACT
The visible photographic man (VIP-Man) computational phantom was developed during 1996-2000 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI, Troy, New York). The interest in anatomical and dosimetric modeling by the group at RPI originated from the doctoral research Dr. X. George Xu performed in early 1990s at Texas A&M University (TAMU, College Station, TX), under the guidance of Dr. W. Dan Reece, Dr. John Poston, and Dr. Wesley Bolch (now with the University of Florida) served on his dissertation committee. Dr. Xu’s work at TAMU was to implement the stylized adult male and female phantoms into the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) code in order to develop an algorithm that would link personnel dosimeter readings to effective dose equivalent that was adopted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (see Chapter 18 for more details).
