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The British Journal of Radiology, Vol 70, Issue 839 1139-1145, Copyright © 1997 by British Institute of Radiology

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Patient doses from standard and spiral CT of the head using a fast twin-beam system

H Seifert, T Hagen, K Bartylla, G Blass and U Piepgras
Department of Radiotherapy, University Hospital of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany.

Investigations were carried out on a novel type of CT scanner, the Elscint CT-Twin, for comparison and optimization of the patient dose caused by standard and spiral CT of the head. For selected CT parameters, organ doses of the Alderson head phantom were measured with thermoluminescent dosemeters. Organ doses were also calculated using the normalized computed tomography dose index (CTDIn) combined with organ dose conversion factors. Then effective doses were deduced. For standard and spiral head CT examinations brain, red bone marrow and bone surface receive the main contributions to effective dose. This amounts to 0.9 and 0.8 mSv for routine standard and spiral CT, respectively, if the combination "dual-slice" mode, 250 mAs per rotation, 5 mm nominal slice width and a packing factor of 1.0, is applied. In clinical practice, for spiral CT head examinations the effective dose has been reduced to 0.7 mSv while guaranteeing adequate image quality, as assessed by determination of low and high contrast resolution. The effective dose values obtained are in the lower part of the range of values published in the literature. The dose determinations showed that, from the aspect of radiation protection of the patient, CT examinations with nominal slice widths between 0.5 and 1 mm as well as packing factors greater than 1.0 should be restricted to really necessary cases.


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