RADIATION PROTECTION ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 153-160.

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Progress of patient size-specific dose estimation in CT examinations

Liang Baohui1,2, Chen Zhi1, Xu Xie1   

  1. 1. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000;
    2. Department of Medical Imaging, Benbu Medical College, Anhui Bengbu 233000
  • Received:2016-04-20 Online:2017-03-20 Published:2021-11-11

Abstract: American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) have published Reports 204 and 220 about size-specific dose estimation (SSDE) in CT examinations in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Antero-posterior dimension (APD) and lateral dimension (LD) have been used to represent the size of patient in Report 204, while Report 220 has used water-equivalent diameter to estimate the SSDE. In recent years, many papers on thorough SSDE studies have been published. In this review, we introduced the main contents of the two Reports, followed by an overview of the applications of SSDE in CT radiation protection, such as establishment of diagnostic reference levels of CT examinations, evaluation of image quality of CT, estimation of organ dose and effective dose of the patients, which can be adopted in the research and applications of SSDE in China.

Key words: computed tomography, size-specific dose estimate, patient size

CLC Number: 

  • TL172