Computed tomography dose assessment-a practical approach

W Leitz, B Axelsson, G Szendrö - Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… patient doses, developing mathematical models for the calculation of dose distributions in
the various organs and risk assess… These dose assessment concepts do frequently need …

Dose in x-ray computed tomography

WA Kalender - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
… the CT dose index (CTDI) are discussed in detail. A review of approaches to patient dose
assessment presently in practice, of the dose levels encountered and options for further dose

Computed tomography dose assessment for a 160 mm wide, 320 detector row, cone beam CT scanner

J Geleijns, MS Artells, PW De Bruin… - Physics in Medicine …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Computed Tomography Dose Index (CTDI) dosimetry paradigm was introduced. The purpose
of this study was to assess … the appropriateness of existing CT dose metrics and to suggest …

[HTML][HTML] Dose assessment in computed tomography examination and establishment of local diagnostic reference levels in Mazandaran, Iran

AJ Toori, A Shabestani-Monfared… - Journal of biomedical …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… This study is aimed at evaluating radiation dose to patients from Computed Tomography (CT)
examination in Mazandaran hospitals and defining diagnostic reference level (DRL). …

Comparison of two methods for assessing patient dose from computed tomography

J Geleijns, JG Van Unnik, J Zoetelief… - The British journal of …, 1994 - academic.oup.com
… In this study organ doses have been assessed for CT investigations of head, thorax and
abdomen. Some organ doses resulting from a CT scan of the thorax and abdomen performed …

Effective dose and risk assessment from computed tomography of the maxillofacial complex

NL Frederiksen, BW Benson… - Dentomaxillofacial …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… of computed tomography (CT) dosimetry include the use of dose descriptors such as the
Computed Tomography Dose … , specification of the absorbed dose at given locations within the …

[HTML][HTML] Recent update on radiation dose assessment for the state-of-the-art coronary computed tomography angiography protocols

SK Tan, CH Yeong, KH Ng, YF Abdul Aziz, Z Sun - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… Finally, we did not include assessment of image quality in this study as our focus is to
compare the radiation dose among these different CT scanners. Recent developments in CCTA (…

Computed tomography dose optimization

E Seeram - Radiologic Technology, 2014 - Am Soc Radiol Tech
… the additional patient exposure from computed tomography (CT) and other … dose
assessment is to address the risk of a CT examination. This requires the use of the effective dose

Computed tomography technology—and dose—in the 21st century

CH McCollough - Health Physics, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… effective dose from cardiac computed tomography from ~15 mSv to <1 mSv. Dual-energy
computed tomography is now in widespread clinical use, enabling the assessment of material …

Evolution in computed tomography: the battle for speed and dose

MM Lell, JE Wildberger, H Alkadhi… - Investigative …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The advent of computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized radiology. Starting as head-only
scanners, modern CT systems are now capable of performing whole-body examinations …