ArticleTomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.)2023
Reporting Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric Patients Undergoing Brain Computed Tomography.
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- Radiation Dose Evaluation in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Repeated Brain Computed Tomography Examinations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Evaluation of computed tomography radiation dose metrics in Saudi Arabia: Comparison to national and international diagnostic reference levels.Saudi medical journal · 2025Review
- Establishing of a National Diagnostic Reference Level for Radiation Dose in Digital Paediatric Pelvic X-Rays in Jordan: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.Drug, healthcare and patient safety · 2025Article
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Abstract
Brain computed tomography (CT) is a diagnostic imaging tool routinely used to assess all paediatric neurologic disorders and other head injuries. Despite the continuous development of paediatric CT imaging, radiation exposure remains a concern. Using diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) helps to manage the radiation dose delivered to patients, allowing one to identify an unusually high dose. In this paper, we propose DRLs for paediatric brain CT examinations in Saudi clinical practices and compare the findings with those of other reported DRL studies. Data including patient and scanning protocols were collected retrospectively from three medical cities for a total of 225 paediatric patients. DRLs were derived for four different age groupings. The resulting DRL values for the dose-length product (DLP) for the age groups of newborns (0-1 year), 1-y-old (1-5 years), 5-y-old (5-10 years) and 10-y-old (10-15 years) were 404 mGy cm, 560 mGy cm, 548 mGy cm, and 742 mGy cm, respectively. The DRLs for paediatric brain CT imaging are comparable to or slightly lower than other DRLs due to the current use of dose optimisation strategies. This study emphasises the need for an international standardisation for the use of weight group categories in DRL establishment for paediatric care in order to provide a more comparable measurement of dose quantities across different hospitals globally.
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