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Dose Estimating Application Software Modification: Additional Function of a Size-Specific Effective Dose Calculator and Auto Exposure Control
- Source :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry.
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016.
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Abstract
- Adequate dose management during computed tomography is important. In the present study, the dosimetric application software ImPACT was added to a functional calculator of the size-specific dose estimate and was part of the scan settings for the auto exposure control (AEC) technique. This study aimed to assess the practicality and accuracy of the modified ImPACT software for dose estimation. We compared the conversion factors identified by the software with the values reported by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 204, and we noted similar results. Moreover, doses were calculated with the AEC technique and a fixed-tube current of 200 mA for the chest-pelvis region. The modified ImPACT software could estimate each organ dose, which was based on the modulated tube current. The ability to perform beneficial modifications indicates the flexibility of the ImPACT software. The ImPACT software can be further modified for estimation of other doses.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
Computed tomography
Radiation Dosage
Application software
computer.software_genre
Effective dose (radiation)
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
law.invention
Toxicology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Software
law
Dose estimation
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Exposure control
Radiometry
Task group
Radiation
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
Phantoms, Imaging
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
Reliability engineering
Calculator
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17423406 and 01448420
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a9c5df2479c7ea6be22e4a643ceb309b