PMID- 24737254
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150223
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 1865-0341 (Electronic)
IS  - 1865-0333 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 2
DP  - 2014 Jul
TI  - Considerations on the practical application of the size-specific dose estimation 
      (SSDE) method of AAPM Report 204.
PG  - 296-302
LID - 10.1007/s12194-014-0265-2 [doi]
AB  - Computed tomography (CT) is responsible for much of the radiation exposure to the 
      population for medical purposes. The technique requires high doses that vary 
      widely from center to center, and for different scanners and radiologists as 
      well. In order to monitor doses to patients, the American Association of 
      Physicists in Medicine has developed the size-specific dose estimate (SSDE), 
      which consists of the determination of patient size dependent coefficients for 
      converting the standard dosimetric index, CTDIvol, into an estimate of the dose 
      actually absorbed by the patient. The present work deals with issues concerning 
      the use of SSDE in the clinical practice. First the issue regarding how much SSDE 
      varies when, for a given CT protocol, the scan covers slightly different volumes 
      is addressed. Then, the differences among SSDE values derived from different 
      patient size descriptors are investigated. For these purposes, data from a 
      clinical archive are analyzed by an automatic procedure specifically developed 
      for SSDE.
FAU - Noferini, Linhsia
AU  - Noferini L
AD  - Medical Physics Specialization School, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, 
      Florence, Italy, linhsia25@gmail.com.
FAU - Fulcheri, Christian
AU  - Fulcheri C
FAU - Taddeucci, Adriana
AU  - Taddeucci A
FAU - Bartolini, Marco
AU  - Bartolini M
FAU - Gori, Cesare
AU  - Gori C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140416
PL  - Japan
TA  - Radiol Phys Technol
JT  - Radiological physics and technology
JID - 101467995
SB  - IM
MH  - *Body Size
MH  - Humans
MH  - Models, Anatomic
MH  - Precision Medicine
MH  - Radiography, Abdominal
MH  - Radiography, Thoracic
MH  - Radiometry/*methods
MH  - *Research Report
MH  - *Societies, Scientific
MH  - *Tomography, X-Ray Computed
EDAT- 2014/04/17 06:00
MHDA- 2015/02/24 06:00
CRDT- 2014/04/17 06:00
PHST- 2014/02/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/03/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/03/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/04/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/04/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/02/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s12194-014-0265-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Radiol Phys Technol. 2014 Jul;7(2):296-302. doi: 10.1007/s12194-014-0265-2. Epub 
      2014 Apr 16.