Organ Doses
Assessment of Cancer Risks Associated with Patient Organ Doses from Medical Diagnostic Computed Tomography in Bangladesh
... Exposures resulting from medical radiological procedures involving ionizing radiation constitute the largest part of the population exposure from artificial radiation [1]. Striking technological advancement and splendid ...
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Monte Carlo calculations for reporting patient organ doses from interventional radiology
... the organ doses and effective doses are reducing with the enhancing of ...radiation doses compared to other type of patients in the same IR ...on doses of patient for an abdominal IR ...
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AP versus PA positioning in lumbar spine computed radiography : Image quality and individual organ doses
... In our study, when increasing the X-ray beam energy both the ESD and ED reduced (AP and PA). This trend has also been reported by Doherty, O’Leary & Brennan (8). With respect to individual organ doses ...
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Analysis of effective and organ dose estimation in CT when using mA modulation : a single scanner pilot study
... equivalent organ doses. Any difference in measured and estimated organ doses would be carried through into the final effective dose ...measured organ doses was carried out to ...
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Radiation dose assessment : measurement, estimation and interpretation
... of organ doses to be performed which is all but impossible in real ...accurate organ dose data, it is critical that it should provide accurate and reproducible ...
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Radiation protection research programme 1980-1984. Catalogue of contracts, Volume II: Description of research programmes. First Edition, February 1982, EUR 91
... 2, New regulations in radiation protection necessitates the knowledge of organ doses for relevant standardized exposure situations, For the determination of the dose distribution over th[r] ...
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Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Measurements of Pulmonary Artery Volumes: Development and Application
... Evaluation of COPD longitudinally to identify predictive surrogate end-points (ECLIPSE).. Normalised organ doses for x ray computed tomography calculated using Monte Carl[r] ...
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Doses Evaluation of Some Body Organs of Pediatric Patients Undergoing Chest X-ray Examination Using Thermoluminescent dosimeter
... corresponding organ doses for each pediatric patient undergoing X-Ray radiation ...patient doses were determined using thermo luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) placed upon to the patient’s ...organs ...
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Determination of absorbed dose of organs (thyroid, sternum, cervical vertebra) in thyroid cancer patients following radioiodine therapy
... The findings here showed a method to obtain the absorbed activity in thyroid of patients and also may be used in MIRD calculations in estimation of organ doses. Farag HI, Ahmad F, Ga[r] ...
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Investigations of organ and effective doses of abdominal cone-beam computed tomography during transarterial chemoembolization using Monte Carlo simulation
... the organ doses from all 44 projec- tions, the simulated results revealed that total doses to the organs in the upper abdomen were higher than those to the other ...target organ during C-arm ...
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Dose Exposure of Patients Undergoing Comprehensive Stroke Imaging by Multidetector Row CT: Comparison of 320 Detector Row and 64 Detector Row CT Scanners
... Organ Doses. The highest organ dose measured in the neu- rocranium was ...thyroid organ dose was measured for the se- quences that contain SureStart scans (helical CTA in 64-detec- tor row CT ...
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Radiation Exposure From Diagnostic Radiographs in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
... the Handbook of Selected Organ Doses, which lists organ doses for a 1-R entrance exposure, based on theoretic calculations on a 3.96-kg model, for the specified beam quality and collimat[r] ...
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Dose Reference Levels for Pediatric Thorax CT: Can Image Quality Be Achieved While Maintaining Dose Reduction for Different Body Mass Indices?
... Organ doses were obtained using the Multi-detector CT approach (DeMarco et al., 2005) on the Monte Carlo N-Particle eXtended (v2.7.a) radiation transport code; While another study performs the dose ...
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Gonad shielding in paediatric pelvic radiography: disadvantages prevail over benefit
... The problem of the collimator settings not being stored in the DICOM header (necessary as input on field size) was addressed by determining the average difference in width and height of the original (unshuttered) and ...
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Patient-specific dosimetry of 99mTc-HYNIC-Tyr3-Octreotide in children
... Patient-specific doses were calculated using both the voxel-level and the organ-level ...children doses were compared with adults ’ ...average organ doses for children were ...’ ...
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WHAT SUITS BEST FOR ORGAN WEIGHT ANALYSIS: REVIEW OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGAN WEIGHT AND BODY / BRAIN WEIGHT FOR RODENT TOXICITY STUDIES
... Ovary weights were relatively less correlated either with body weight or brain weight. However, it has been reported that in case of systemic toxicity (nonspecific) where body weight decreases, ovarian (as well as ...
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ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: A HOPE OF SURVIVAL
... Today Organ transplant is A major area of research for the physician. Organ Transplantation provides new life to the patient but some complication like graft reject reaction are very common from the ...
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Organ Procurement in the United States- A Historical Review of Legislative and Regulatory Breakthroughs in the Development of a New Healthcare Subsector
... increasing organ donation convened by Surgeon General Antonia Novella concluded that “stronger efforts were needed to ensure compliance with existing routine inquiry and required request ...for organ, ...
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Clinicopathological Correlations in Postasphyxial Organ Damage: A Donor Organ Perspective
... of organ damage. Knowledge of the severity of collateral organ dam- age in the individual patient with postasphyxial hy- poxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is important for prognostic purposes (for organs ...
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A Unified Approach to Organ Donor Recruitment, Organ Procurement, and Distribution
... That such a procedural change would likely be accepted by the ma- jority of citizens is supported by the empirical evidence noted above, namely, that (a) most famili[r] ...
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