COMPARISON OF PEDIATRIC LENS DOSE MEASUREMENTS BETWEEN AXIAL SCAN MODE WITHOUT ACTIVE COLLIMATOR AND HELICAL SCAN MODE WITH ACTIVE COLLIMATOR BY USING A 64 DETECTOR-ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER. Issue 19 (4th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Masuda, Takanori; Funama, Yoshinori; Nakaura, Takeshi; Sato, Tomoyasu; Urayama, Kotaro; Kiguchi, Masao; Oku, Takayuki; Arao, Shinichi; Ono, Atsushi; Hiratsuka, Junichi; Awai, Kazuo
• Is Part Of: Radiation protection dosimetry. Volume 198:Issue 19(2022)
• Page Start: 1522
• Page End: 1527
• Publication Date: 2022-10-04
• Subjects: Radiation dosimetry -- Periodicals; Radiation -- Safety measures -- Periodicals; 363.1799
• DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncac196
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0144-8420

Abstract

Abstract: To investigate the pediatric eye lens entrance surface dose for both axial scan modes without an active collimator and helical scan modes with an active collimator on 64 detector-row computed tomography (CT) scanner. We used three pediatric anthropomorphic phantoms with axial and helical scan modes from the superior orbitomeatal line to the crown of the head. We compared the measured dose values of the real-time skin dosemeter at the surfaces of the lens and the image noise at different scan modes. The median measured dose values for the lens of newborn, 1-year-old and the 5-year-old phantom were 31.3, 0.97 and 0.65 mGy, respectively, in the axial scan mode and 0.89, 1.21 and 0.71 mGy, respectively, in the helical scan mode. Compared with helical scans with an active collimators, axial scans can reduce the lens dose by ∼10% during head CT on 64 detector-row CT scanner without deterioration of image noise.