Radiation doses and risks in chest computed tomography examinations

W Huda - Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2007 - atsjournals.org
… undergoing chest computed tomography (CT) examinations. Patient … used to perform chest
CT examinations. Values of DLP were … applicable to chest CT examinations. Calculations of …

[HTML][HTML] Patient dose considerations in computed tomography examinations

IA Tsalafoutas, GV Koukourakis - World journal of radiology, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… A few years ago, general radiological examinations (radiographs) were responsible for the
… that computed tomography (CT) examinations accounted for only 2% of all examinations, but …

Effective doses to patients undergoing thoracic computed tomography examinations

W Huda, EM Scalzetti, M Roskopf - Medical Physics, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… and total energy imparted for each chest CT examination. Computed values of energy
imparted during the chest CT examination were converted into effective doses taking into account …

Radiation dose associated with common computed tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable risk of cancer

R Smith-Bindman, J Lipson, R Marcus… - Archives of internal …, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Background Use of computed tomography (CT) for diagnostic evaluation has increased
dramatically over the past 2 decades. Even though CT is associated with substantially higher …

International variation in radiation dose for computed tomography examinations: prospective cohort study

R Smith-Bindman, Y Wang, P Chu, R Chung… - Bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
… that contribute to variation in radiation doses used for computed tomography (CT). … CT
examinations (7.0-25.7 mSv) and a 17-fold range in proportion of high dose examinations (4-69%)…

Radiation doses to patients receiving computed tomography examinations in British Columbia

JE Aldrich, AM Bilawich… - Canadian Association of …, 2006 - search.proquest.com
… trom routine computed tomography (CT) examinations in the … height and computed tomography
dose index or dose iinear … for clinically indicated routine CT examinations ai 18 radiology …

Patient doses in computed tomography examinations in two regions of the Russian Federation

L Chipiga, C Bernhardsson - Radiation protection dosimetry, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Computed tomography (CT) is often a justified diagnostic tool, but is also associated with high
exposure of the patients. Due to the rapid increase in the number of CT units and thus the …

The effect of overscanning on patient effective dose from multidetector helical computed tomography examinations

A Tzedakis, J Damilakis, K Perisinakis… - Medical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… dose from helical MD CT examinations. The Monte Carlo ‐… and measured standard computed
tomography dose index (… effective doses from four standard CT examinations, ie, head and …

[图书][B] Doses from computed tomography (CT) examinations in the UK-2003 review

PC Shrimpton, MC Hillier, MA Lewis, M Dunn - 2005 - biophysicssite.com
A new UK computed tomography (CT) survey has provided a useful snapshot of patient
doses for 2003. Scan details for nearly 850 standard protocols and 2,000 individual patients …

In vivo formation and repair of DNA double-strand breaks after computed tomography examinations

M Löbrich, N Rief, M Kühne… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
… from individuals undergoing computed tomography examination of the thorax and/or the
abdomen. The number of DSBs induced by computed tomography examination was found to …