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Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences | Volume-7 | Issue 07
Estimation of Pediatric Patients’ Radiation Dose during Computed Tomography Examinations
Rufida Elbushra Ahmed, Suhaib Alameen, Mohamed E. M. Gar-Elnabi
Published: July 30, 2019 | 49 65
DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i07.071
Pages: 2619-2622
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Abstract
The important of this study comes from the increased number of CT procedure to pediatric as CT consider invasive investigation. Patient data for both male and female collected from four different hospital and centers in Khartoum which using different CT scanner modalities. comparing the demographic data and radiographic information for male and female patients from CT scan for pediatric during brain examinations, the demographic information the age for male was higher than female, while the body mass index for female was higher than male, for the demographic data the Ma, DLP and effective dose was higher for male while the CTDIvol for female was higher than male. comparing the demographic data and radiographic information for male and female patients from CT scan for pediatric during chest examinations, the demographic information the age for male was higher than female while the body mass index for female was higher than that for male, the demographic data the mA, DLP, CTDIvol and effective dose was higher for female. Comparing the dose parameters among the two exams for all hospitals for brain the CTDIvol, DLP and ED was 54.82 ± 18.82, 890.99 ± 451.73 and 7.83 ± 4.75 respectively, while for CT chest was 9.03 ± 5.54, 319.72 ± 243.54 and 8.19 ± 6.59 respectively. When compare the present studies with others in table 6. Found a huge different in the pediatric dose and this for mainly two reasons; first from the technologist because they are not well trainee and they are not separate between the adults and pediatric protocol, and the other reason from the medical engineering for didn’t activate the AEC option for medical devices special the X-ray and CT machines.