PMID- 37295952
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231023
LR  - 20231023
IS  - 1742-3406 (Electronic)
IS  - 0144-8420 (Linking)
VI  - 199
IP  - 12
DP  - 2023 Jul 21
TI  - Chest CT utilization in COVID-19: a dosimetric and diagnostic-quality study.
PG  - 1257-1263
LID - 10.1093/rpd/ncad174 [doi]
AB  - The purpose of this study is to look at the variations in chest computed 
      tomography (CT) use, radiation dose and image quality in the 2019 novel 
      coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia patients in Saudi Arabia. This is a 
      retrospective study of 402 patients with COVID-19, who were treated between 
      February and October 2021. Radiation dose was estimated using metrics of volume 
      CT dose index (CTDIvol) and size-specific dose estimate (SSDE). The imaging 
      performance of the CT scanners was evaluated by measuring different parameters, 
      such as resolution and CT number uniformity, with an ACR-CT accreditation 
      phantom. Expert radiologists assessed the diagnostic quality and occurrence of 
      artefacts. For all of the image quality parameters tested, the majority of the 
      scanner sites (80%) were found to be within the suggested acceptance limits. 
      Ground-glass opacities were the most common finding in our patient sample (54%). 
      On chest CT exams with typical appearance of COVID-19 pneumonia, the most 
      respiratory motion artefacts (56.3%) were present, followed by those with 
      indeterminate appearance (32.2%). There were significant differences in CT 
      utilization, CTDIvol and SSDE across the collaborated sites. The use of CT scans 
      and radiation doses varied in the COVID-19 patients, highlighting the 
      optimizations of CT protocols at participating sites.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. 
      For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
FAU - Saeed, Mohammed K
AU  - Saeed MK
AD  - Department of Radiological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran 
      University, Najran 1988, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alshamrani, Hassan A
AU  - Alshamrani HA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0569-5887
AD  - Department of Radiological Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran 
      University, Najran 1988, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Abdullah, Youssef M
AU  - Abdullah YM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8434-2515
AD  - Department of Radiological Science and Medical Imaging, College of Applied 
      Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Al-Majmaah 11952, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Ali, Ali Sid Ahmed M
AU  - Ali ASAM
AD  - Faculty of Science and Technology, Al Neelain University, Medical Physics 
      Department, Khartoum 12702, Sudan.
FAU - Almalki, Y
AU  - Almalki Y
AD  - College of Medicine, Najran University, P.O Box 1988, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alqfail, Khaled A
AU  - Alqfail KA
AD  - College of Medicine, Najran University, P.O Box 1988, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
LA  - eng
GR  - Deanship of Scientific Research at Najran University/
GR  - NU/RG/MRC/12/1/Research Group Funding Program/
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Radiat Prot Dosimetry
JT  - Radiation protection dosimetry
JID - 8109958
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Radiation Dosage
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - *COVID-19/diagnostic imaging
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
MH  - *Pneumonia
MH  - COVID-19 Testing
EDAT- 2023/06/10 15:13
MHDA- 2023/10/23 00:42
CRDT- 2023/06/09 21:38
PHST- 2022/06/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/05/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/05/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/10/23 00:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/06/10 15:13 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/06/09 21:38 [entrez]
AID - 7192820 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/rpd/ncad174 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2023 Jul 21;199(12):1257-1263. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncad174.