Peter F Caracappa

Peter F Caracappa
Name: Peter F Caracappa
Title:Lecturer
Department Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Website:http://www.eng.rpi.edu/soe/index.php/faculty/154?soeid=caracp3
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Education Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Scholarly Works:
  • Caracappa PF, Xu XG, Gu J. Modeling Of Tube Current Modulation Methods In Computed Tomography Dose Calculations For Adult And Pregnant Patients. Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2011.
  • Na YH, Zhang B, Zhang J, Caracappa PF, Xu XG. Deformable adult human phantoms for radiation protection dosimetry: anthropometric data representing size distributions of adult worker populations and software algorithms. Phys. Med. Biol. 55:3789-3811, 2010.
  • Zhang JY, Na YH, Caracappa PF, Xu XG. RPI-AM and RPI-AF, a pair of mesh-based, size-adjustable adult male and female computational phantoms using ICRP-89 parameters and their calculations for organ doses from monoenergetic photon beams. Phys. Med. Biol. 54:5885-5908, 2009.
  • Gu J, Bednarz B, Caracappa PF, Xu XG. The development, validation and application of a multi-detector CT (MDCT) scanner model for assessing organ doses to the pregnant patient and her fetus using Monte Carlo methods. Phys. Med. Biol. 54:2699-2717, 2009
  • Caracappa PF, Chao TC, Xu XG. A Study Of Predicted Bone Marrow Distribution On Calculated Marrow Dose From External Radiation Exposures Using Two Sets Of Image Data For The Same Individual. Health Phys. 96(6):661– 674; 2009.