Organ doses and cancer risk assessment in patients exposed to high doses from recurrent CT exams

N Zewde, F Ria, MM Rehani - European journal of radiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To estimate cumulative organ doses and age-and gender-stratified cancer mortality
risks in patients undergoing recurrent computed tomography (CT) exams. Methods Cohorts …

Cumulative radiation exposure from multimodality recurrent imaging of CT, fluoroscopically guided intervention, and nuclear medicine

X Li, MM Rehani, TA Marschall, K Yang, B Liu - European Radiology, 2024 - Springer
Objectives To assess cumulative effective dose (CED) over a 4-year period in patients
undergoing multimodality recurrent imaging at a major hospital in the USA. Methods CED …

T-shirt size as a classification for body habitus in computed tomography (CT) and development of size-based dose reference levels for different indications

X Li, D Steigerwalt, MM Rehani - European journal of radiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To examine the impact of patient size on dose indices and develop size-based
reference levels (50th and 75th percentiles) for 20 body CT exams for routine and organ …

Accounting for radiation exposure from previous CT exams while deciding on the next exam: What do referring clinicians think?

MM Rehani, K Applegate, T Bodzay, CH Kim… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To obtain clinicians' views of the need to account for radiation exposure from
previous CT scans and the advisability of a regulatory mechanism to control the number of …

Deep learning-driven multi-view multi-task image quality assessment method for chest CT image

J Su, M Li, Y Lin, L Xiong, C Yuan, Z Zhou… - BioMedical Engineering …, 2023 - Springer
Background Chest computed tomography (CT) image quality impacts radiologists'
diagnoses. Pre-diagnostic image quality assessment is essential but labor-intensive and …

Automatic organ completion with image stitching for personalized radiation dosimetry in CT examinations

L Xin, W Zhuo, H Liu, T Xie - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Computed tomography (CT) image‐based patient‐specific voxel‐based dosimetry
has difficulties complementing missing tissues for organs located partially inside or …

Optimisation of protection in the medical exposure of recurrent adult patients due to computed tomography procedures: development of recurrent exposures reference …

M Bramilla, L Berton, RF Balzano, B Cannillo… - European …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives To assess the incidence (1 year) and the cumulative incidence (3 years) of the
condition of patients accruing cumulative effective doses (CED) of≥ 100 mSv and their …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning-based automatic image quality assessment method for respiratory phase on computed tomography chest images

J Su, M Li, Y Lin, L Xiong, C Yuan… - Quantitative Imaging in …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Computed tomography (CT) chest scans have become commonly used in
clinical diagnosis. Image quality assessment (IQA) for CT images plays an important role in …

Dose, dose, dose, but where is the patient dose?

MM Rehani, XG Xu - Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The article reviews the historical developments in radiation dose metrices in medical
imaging. It identifies the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of current-day metrices. The …

Is a one percent occurrence of high-dose patients significant?

M Mataac, MM Rehani - European Journal of Radiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Risk-free society is utopian. We come across risks in everyday life, and we use probabilities
to get a feel of how risky a situation is. Risk probability numbers of around 1% are …