background: to suggest south india ct diagnostic reference levels (drls) by collecting radiation doses for the most commonly performed ct examinations. materials and methods: a pilot study investigated the most frequent ct examinations. 110 ct sites were asked to complete a survey booklet to allow the recording of ct parameters for each of 3 ct examinations during a 1 year time period. dose dat...

This report describes methods to estimate fetal radiation doses from radiation diagnostic examinations, based on survey data from 3 hospitals in southern Sweden. The fetal dose has been calculated with available computer programs and verified by dose measurements inside a female human phantom for conventional X-ray and computed tomography (CT) examinations. Measured fetal doses have been correl...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CT is the imaging technique of choice in the evaluation of midface trauma or inflammatory disease. We performed a systematic evaluation of scan protocols to optimize image quality and radiation exposure on third-generation dual-source CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS CT protocols with different tube voltage (70-150 kV), current (25-300 reference mAs), prefiltration, pitch valu...

Introduction: Accurate evaluation of femoral and tibial torsion is essential for children or adult with legs deformity, becuse incorrect legs morphogenesis can lead to pathological situation. CT scan is commonly used for the measurement of skeletal bone parameters. But, disability in imaging from standing and sitting posture and absorb dose of patients are deficits of this meth...

This paper focuses on minimizing the time requirement for CT capture through innovative simultaneous x-ray capture method. The state-of-the-art CT imaging methodology captures a sequence of projections during which the internal organ movements may lead to poor reconstruction due to motion artefacts. Traditional CT scanners' minimize such effect by taking more projections than necessary. In this...

dose because, irrespective of the technology being used in individual cases, the benefits and risks of taking an X-ray need to be assessed. Whereas modern 3D imaging systems, such as computer tomography (CT) or conebeam computed tomography (CBCT), undoubtedly have brought significant advantages to dental diagnostics, they are attended by a higher radiation dose compared to 2D X-ray technology. ...

PURPOSE Real-time adaptive planning and treatment has been infeasible due in part to its high computational complexity. There have been many recent efforts to utilize graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the computational performance and dose accuracy in radiation therapy. Data structure and memory access patterns are the key GPU factors that determine the computational performance an...