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PATIENT DOSE SURVEY BASED ON SIZE-SPECIFIC DOSE ESTIMATE AND ACCEPTABLE QUALITY DOSE IN CHEST AND ABDOMEN/PELVIS CT
Ali Mehdipour1, Masoumeh Parsi2, Faezeh-Sadat Khorram
1Department of Radiology, Faculty of Paramedical, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, PO BOX, Rafsanjan, Iran.
Abstract:
The practical aspects of two recently developed patient dose optimization methods in computed tomography (CT) examinations, size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) and acceptable quality dose (AQD), were verified for the chest and abdomen/pelvis examinations. A dose survey was performed in a CT institute by considering patients lateral diameter, weight and body mass index (BMI). The AQD tables for weight and BMI groups and SSDE threshold curves were obtained. The mean of volume CT dose index and dose length product for standard-size patients were compared with the national diagnostic reference levels (NDRLs) of Iran. The results show that patient doses are below the NDRLs. It is more reliable to report the AQDs based on SSDE and for BMI groups which can well take into account patient size in the dose optimization process. The SSDE threshold curves can be determined with more precision by including dose data of all possible sizes in the curves.
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