… purpose of this study is to develop a new and simple methodology for calculating mean
size-specific dose … With our method, SSDE weight can be calculated using weight and the CTDI …

… The use of parameters water equivalent diameter (D W ) and … table in these estimations
requires careful consideration and is … calculated D W and SSDE using two methods: one using a …

… Use of the analysis could provide a simple and practical approach to assessing SSDE for a
… some of the issues associated with calculating D w , a practical approach based on using D …

… METHODOLOGY This dissertation evaluated SSDE in light of organ doses from four
routine … 72 Figure 4 4: brain parenchyma dose estimations for the three tally regions (nDbrain,1, …

… The purpose of this study was to calculate the effective diameter … CT dose index (CTDIvol)
should be taken into consideration. … For a more practical approach, Deff,m and Deff,c can be …

… However, the limitation of both is that they only estimate dose … in evaluation of the radiation
dose based on the SSDE method … by individual specific size is critical to optimize the use of …

… , and maintenance issues limit the wide usage of gamma sources … only an estimate of patient
dose and not an accurate method to … Consideration of the usefulness of a size-specific dose …

… based attenuation correction methods like use of a radioactive source to produce transmission
scans. Cost, poor count density, and maintenance issues limit the wide usage of gamma …

… SSDE is readily available to use in the DRL process [16]. … , this study proposes a simple
method to drive SSDE z at a … to patient privacy concerns and ethical issues. Therefore, it was not …

… to use the predictive equation to develop an automatic SSDE … SSD estimates between
different programs and methods to … method by comparing its values of SSDE calculation to a …