… 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 …

… , 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… In addition, due to practical considerations we calculated the point dose based on linear …
dose calculation method based on SSDE in this study only apply to locations in the scan area. …

… using the size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) method, as … doses delivered to patients and
their potential implications in … SSDE and effective dose values by the use of this Python code. …

… the size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) be used to set DRLs for CT scans [7, 8]. The use of
… Finally, the study did not assess the variability in SSDE calculation via the method proposed …

… an alternative method to manually estimate SSDE for the … important issues that may limit
the accuracy of this approach. … 23 Thus, it should be sufficient to apply our proposed method …

… The size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) concept is based on … The D w calculation method
used in this study was similar to … to take the beam hardening effect into consideration. The x-ray …