PMID- 35870200
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220926
LR  - 20220926
IS  - 1742-3406 (Electronic)
IS  - 0144-8420 (Linking)
VI  - 198
IP  - 16
DP  - 2022 Sep 22
TI  - AUTOMATED ESTIMATION OF PATIENT'S SIZE USING AUTOWED TOOL AND INDOSECT PROGRAM: A 
      DOSIMETRIC STUDY FOR PAEDIATRIC HEAD CT EXAMINATIONS.
PG  - 1238-1243
LID - 10.1093/rpd/ncac164 [doi]
AB  - Size-specific dose estimate (SSDE), which can be calculated by measuring the 
      effective diameter (De) or water equivalent diameter (Dw) of the patient, is one 
      of the recent approaches for verifying the individual doses during computer 
      tomography (CT) examinations. This work aimed to compare the Dw estimated by the 
      AutoWED tool and IndoseCT software and to investigate CT axial (ARH) and 
      paediatric head (PH) protocols used in southern Saudi Arabia to calculate the 
      dose received by paediatric patients using metrics of volume CT dose index 
      (CTDIvol) and SSDE. The distribution between the ARH and PH protocols was 57.8 
      and 42.2%, respectively. There was no significant difference in Dw values between 
      the AutoWED tool and the IndoseCT program (0.13%). Including CT table or other 
      objects during estimation of Dw can lead to variation up to 11.4%. The impact of 
      selecting IndoseCT options to identify the border of the patient may be part of 
      the explanation for these variations. A strong linear relationship was obtained 
      between De and Dw in paediatric head size (R2 = 0.96). Using IndoseCT, for 0-1.5, 
      1.5-5 and 5.0-18 age groups (years), the Dw was found to be 13.2, 15.3 and 
      16.8 cm, respectively. The SSDE for the PH protocol was substantially lower than 
      that of the ARH protocol. As a result, education of the individuals engaging in 
      paediatric CT examinations is necessary for dose optimization.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. 
      For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
FAU - Saeed, Mohammed K
AU  - Saeed MK
AD  - Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alshamrani, Hassan A
AU  - Alshamrani HA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0569-5887
AD  - Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Sulieman, Abdelmoneim
AU  - Sulieman A
AD  - Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Abdullah, Youssef M
AU  - Abdullah YM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8434-2515
AD  - Applied Sciences College, Al-Majmaah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Yousef, Mohamed
AU  - Yousef M
AD  - Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Ali, Ali S A M
AU  - Ali ASAM
AD  - Faculty of Science and Technology, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan.
FAU - Alshamrani, Khalaf A
AU  - Alshamrani KA
AD  - Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
LA  - eng
GR  - NU/RG/MRC/11/3/Deanship of Scientific Research at Najran University/
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Radiat Prot Dosimetry
JT  - Radiation protection dosimetry
JID - 8109958
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Computers
MH  - Humans
MH  - Phantoms, Imaging
MH  - Radiation Dosage
MH  - *Radiometry
MH  - *Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
MH  - Water
EDAT- 2022/07/24 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/28 06:00
CRDT- 2022/07/23 17:42
PHST- 2022/04/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/06/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/07/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/23 17:42 [entrez]
AID - 6649274 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/rpd/ncac164 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2022 Sep 22;198(16):1238-1243. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncac164.