Patient-specific Effective Dose Estimation from Dose–Length Product in Lung Computed Tomography Using Monte Carlo Simulation [PDF]
Journal of Medical Signals and SensorsBackground: Computed tomography (CT) imaging has a large portion in the dose of patients from radiological procedures; therefore, accurate calculation of radiation risk estimation in this modality is inevitable.
Gholamreza Fallahmohammadi +2 more
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Clinical Determinants of Dose–Length Product in Pediatric Brain CT: Implications for Age-Specific Imaging Protocols [PDF]
Journal of ImagingSystematic optimization of pediatric brain computed tomography (CT) protocols remains challenging because clinical data are limited for children younger than 5 years.
Kangmin Lee, Jina Shim, Youngjin Lee
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Estimating Effective Dose of Radiation From Pediatric Cardiac CT Angiography Using a 64-MDCT Scanner: New Conversion Factors Relating Dose-Length Product to Effective Dose. [PDF]
AJR Am J Roentgenol, 2017 Trattner S +7 more
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Evaluation of Local Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric and Adult Patients Undergoing Head Computed Tomography Examination in Amhara Regional States, Ethiopia [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2023 Introduction: During computed tomography examinations variation of dose for pediatric and adults has been increasing widely, even when automated exposure control is used. Hence, the objective of this study was to assess the computed tomography head local
Seife Dellie, Ambaye Tesfaw
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Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2023 Objective: Reject analysis is usually performed in digital radiography (DR) for quality assurance. Data for computed tomography (CT) rejects remains sparse.
Laura Haddad +3 more
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Assessment of Organ Dose and Effective Dose from Head Computed Tomography in Northwestern Nigeria
UMYU Scientifica Journal, 2022 The amount of radiation dose received by patient undergoing Head computed tomography examination in General Amadi rimi orthopedics and specialist hospital, Katsina has been estimated.
Jamaladdeen Kabir +2 more
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Establishing local Diagnostic Reference Level for Adult Patients in Computed Tomography Examination in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Physics, 2021 Introduction: Nowadays, the absorbed dose of patients is on the rise due to the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) during the diagnosis process. Patients' doses for similar procedures are very different due to diversity in scanners and protocols.
Majid Abiar +2 more
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Clinical Question Influence on Radiation Dose of Cardiac CT Scan in Children
Children, 2022 Background: To assess the impact of different clinical questions on radiation doses acquired during cardiac computed tomography in children. Methods: A total of 116 children who underwent cardiac CT on a third-generation dual-source CT scanner were ...
Theodor Adla +7 more
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Diagnostics, 2020 The aim of this study was to determine the conversion factors for the effective dose (ED) per dose length product (DLP) for various computed tomography (CT) protocols based on the 2007 recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological ...
Sang-Kyung Lee +3 more
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Journal of Medical Physics, 2023 The study aimed to compute the effective dose (E) and size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) of routine adult patients undergoing thorax and abdominal computed tomography (CT) imaging and to present their multivariate analysis. All adult thorax and abdominal
Mudasir Ashraf Shah +7 more
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