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X-ray Dose Reduction through Adaptive Exposure in Fluoroscopic Imaging
Published on: September 11, 2011
Radiation exposure in multidetector CT: dose comparison between late 1990s and early 2010s in Korea
Moon Chan Kim1, Dong Kyoon Han, Yon Min Kim
1Department of Radiologic Science, Eulji University, Kyungki, Korea.
Abstract:
The effective dose under ordinary clinical computed tomography (CT) protocols using three kinds of 64-channel and a 40-channel CT ranged from 0.6 to 15.5 mSv in early 2010s. And the organ dose ranged from 1.6 to 130.4 mGy: orbital and brain doses for brain stroke CT were the highest. For the comparison of the effective dose between late 1990s and early 2010s, multidetector CT (MDCT) for high-resolution lung CT was 2.4 times higher than that of single-detector CT (SDCT) and the ratio was the highest. However, the effective dose at MDCT was 20 % lower than that of SDCT in chest CT due to applying dose-saving techniques. In organ dose comparisons, high-resolution lung CT at MDCT was 3.5-4.5 times higher than that of SDCT, and showed 1.1-1.5 times higher than that of SDCT in the head and chest CT. For the abdomen CT, the primary organ dose at MDCT was ∼30 % lower than that of SDCT.
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