COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS OF PATIENT DOSE ESTIMATIONS IN CT USING ANTHROPOMORPHIC MODELS.

The common methods for patient dose estimations in computed tomography (CT) are thermoluminescence dosemeter (TLD) measurements or the usage of software packages based on Monte Carlo simulations like CT-Expo or the newer CTVoxDos, which uses the ICRP Reference Adult Male (ICRP 110). Organ (OD) and effective doses of a CT protocol of the upper abdomen are compared. Compared to CTVoxDos, ODs inferred by TLD measurement using an anthropomorphic phantom differ by (19 +/- 16)% inside the primary radiation field, (14 +/- 2)% for partially primary irradiated organs and (34 +/- 38)% in the scattered radiation field. ODs estimated by CT-Expo show a mean deviation of (16 +/- 9)% (primary irradiated) and (28 +/- 31)% (scatter irradiated) from ODs estimated by CTVoxDos.