Radiation dose modulation of computed tomography component in positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Y Inoue - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
In oncology practice, the CT component of PET/CT may be used for attenuation correction,
lesion localization, and CT diagnosis, and significantly enhances the clinical benefit of PET …

Relationships of Radiation Dose Indices with Body Size Indices in Adult Body Computed Tomography

Y Inoue, H Itoh, K Nagahara, H Hata, K Mitsui - Tomography, 2023 - mdpi.com
We investigated the relationships between radiation dose indices and body size indices in
adult body computed tomography (CT). A total of 3200 CT scans of the thoracic, abdominal …

Dual-energy computed tomography angiography of the head and neck with single-source computed tomography: a new technical (split filter) approach for bone …

N Kaemmerer, M Brand, M Hammon, M May… - Investigative …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Dual-energy computed tomographic angiography (DE-CTA) has been
demonstrated to improve the visualization of the head and neck vessels. The aim of this …

Automatic exposure control attains radiation dose modulation matched with the head size in pediatric brain CT

Y Inoue, H Itoh, H Miyatake, H Hata, R Sasa… - Tomography, 2022 - mdpi.com
We investigated the relationship between the head size and radiation dose in pediatric brain
computed tomography (CT) to evaluate the validity of automatic exposure control (AEC) …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-specific organ and effective dose estimates in pediatric oncology computed tomography

Y Gao, B Quinn, N Pandit-Taskar, G Behr, U Mahmood… - Physica medica, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Estimate organ and effective doses from computed tomography scans of pediatric
oncologic patients using patient-specific information. Materials and Methods With IRB …

Scout-Net: prospective personalized estimation of CT organ doses from scout views

AAZ Imran, S Wang, D Pal, S Dutta, B Patel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Purpose: Estimation of patient-specific organ doses is required for more comprehensive
dose metrics, such as effective dose. Currently, available methods are performed …

Evaluation of an organ-based tube current modulation tool in pediatric CT examinations

AE Papadakis, J Damilakis - European radiology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives To investigate the effect of an organ-based tube current modulation (OTCM)
technique on organ absorbed dose and assess image quality in pediatric CT examinations …

Radiation dose of the eye lens in CT examinations of the brain in clinical practice—the effect of radiographer training to optimise gantry tilt and scan length

J Tarkiainen, M Nadhum, A Heikkilä… - Radiation Protection …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Lenses are always exposed to radiation in brain computed tomography (CT) scans.
However, the lens dose can be reduced by excluding lens from scanning area by optimising …

Sample size and estimation of standard radiation doses for pediatric brain CT

Y Inoue, H Itoh, N Shiibashi, R Sasa, K Mitsui - Tomography, 2022 - mdpi.com
Estimation of the standard radiation dose at each imaging facility is required for radiation
dose management, including establishment and utilization of the diagnostic reference …

A comparison of breast and lung doses from chest CT scans using organ‐based tube current modulation (OBTCM) vs. Automatic tube current modulation (ATCM)

RR Layman, AJ Hardy, HJ Kim… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this work was to estimate and compare breast and lung doses of
chest CT scans using organ‐based tube current modulation (OBTCM) to those from …