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Mônica Silva Costa Janson Ney1, Alair Augusto Sarmet Moreira Damas Dos Santos2, GIuliana Vasconcelos De Souza Fonseca3
1Radiology Service of the Marcilio Dias Navy Hospital (HNMD), Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro-RJ,Brazil.
Abstract:
This work aimed to analyze the effective doses radiation, estimated from the dose-length product, in 4821 examinations carried out in three CT scanners (named as A, B and C) during the period of December 1st 2013 to 30th November 2014 and compare them, with 95% confidence interval, with typical values for the CT practice described in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Report # 96 (2008). The mean values of effective doses found in the A, B and C equipments were, respectively, 1.55, 2.09 and 1.30 mSv, in head; 7.75, 9.01 and 10.45 mSv in abdomen/pelvis; and 3.87, 7.94 and 3.92 mSv in chest examinations. There were significantly different among each service, except between the A and C equipments in the chest examinations (p = 0.7148). Only the B equipment performed CT scans with effective doses above the US typical values, for head and chest examinations.
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