OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to report preliminary results of an ongoing prospective trial of ultralow-dose abdominal MDCT. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Imaging with standard-dose contrast-enhanced (n = 21) and unenhanced (n = 24) clinical abdominal MDCT protocols was immediately followed by ultralow-dose imaging of a matched series of 45 consecutively registered adults (mean age, 57.9 yea...

CT image quality is heavily reliant on radiation dose, which causes a trade-off between dose and that affects the subsequent image-based diagnostic performance. However, high can be harmful to both patients operators. Several (deep learning-based) approaches have been attempted denoise low images. those require access large training sets, specifically full images for reference, often difficult ...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of additional coronary calcium scoring on total effective radiation dose and diagnostic accuracy of low-dose computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) with prospective electrocardiogram (ECG) triggering. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-one consecutive patients underwent 64-slice CTCA using prospective ECG triggering, calcium scoring, and inva...

The hyperconsciousness of radiation dose delivered to the patient during chest radiological X-ray procedures are prerequisite negate menace exposure. pinpoint this research is inquest doses received by for routine individual x-ray in health care system associated Kebbi State Government, Nigeria. Entrance Surface Dose and effective accordance with exposure factors collected real examinations wer...

background: coronary angiography is a commonly performed diagnostic procedure with life saving benefits for the patient. however, this procedure involves relatively high radiation dose. the purpose of this study was to determine the average effective dose of patients undergoing coronary angiography and to estimate the associated radiation risk in terms of fatal malignancy. materials and methods...

BACKGROUND Whole body fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is the standard of care in oncologic diagnosis and staging, and patient radiation dose must be well understood to balance exam benefits with the risk from radiation exposure. Although reference PET/CT patient doses are available, the potential for widely varying total dose prompts eval...

Y. Lemoigne and A. Caner (eds.), Radiation Protection in Medical Physics, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics 1, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0247-9_2, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract A number of radiation units exist for representing radiation dose to patients, staff, public and quantities for radiation equipment performance in radiological pract...