Establishment of a local diagnostic reference level for computed tomography chest and abdomen in two different cities in Saudi Arabia

CONCLUSION: Hospital 'A' irradiated patients with a higher dose for the abdomen exam than Hospital 'T', but both hospitals agreed on the amount of radiation dose received by patients for chest imaging. The proposed LDRL for two examinations was less than the DRL obtained from the literature.PMID:38113663 | DOI:10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.111147

Source: Applied Radiation and Isotopes - December 19, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Amna Mohamed Ahmed Alamin Musa Afaf Medani Mustafa Mahmoud Hamid Osman Mohammed Elsamani Samih Kajoak Salem Saeed Alghamdi Abdulrahman Tajaldeen Mohamed Y Hanfi Mayeen Uddin Khandaker Source Type: research