Radiation dose to the female breast from 16-MDCT body protocols

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1718-1722

  Hurwitz, Lynne M ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a,b   Reiman, Robert E ^a,b   Paulson, Erik K ^a   Frush, Donald P ^a   Nguyen, Giao T ^b   Toncheva, Greta I ^b   Goodman, Philip C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast cancer; CT; Radiation dose; Women's imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; THORAX; WOMEN'S HEALTH; X RAY; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

BREAST; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745498580     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1917     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. American Cancer Society Web site. 2004 Statistics. Available at: www.cancer.org. Accessed February 3, 2005
2. Preston D, Mattsson A, Holmberg E, Shore R, Hildreth NG, Boice JD Jr. Radiation effects on breast cancer risk: a pooled analysis of eight cohorts. Radiat Res 2002; 158:220-235
3. Hildreth NG, Shore RE, Dvoretsky PM. The risk of breast cancer after irradiation of the thymus in infancy. N Engl J Med 1989; 321:1281-1284
4. Modan B, Chetrit A, Alfandary E, Katz L. Increased risk of breast cancer after low-dose irradiation. Lancet 1989; 1:629-631
5. Hoffman DA, Lonstein JE, Morin MM, Visscher W, Harris III BS, Boice JD Jr. Breast cancer in women with scoliosis exposed to multiple diagnostic x-rays. J Natl Cancer Inst 1989; 81:1307-1312
6. Thomton FJ, Paulson EK, Yoshizumi TT, Frush DP, Nelson RC. Single versus multi-detector row CT: comparison of radiation doses and dose profile. Acad Radiol 2003; 10:379-385
7. Peet DJ, Pryor MD. Evaluation of a MOSFET radiation sensor for the measurement of entrance surface dose in diagnostic radiology. Br J Radiol 1999; 72:562-568
8. Yoshizumi TT, Sarder M, Goodman PC, Frush DP, Barnes L, Nguyen G. Application of MOSFET technology in CT organ dose assessment. (abstr) Med Phys 2003; 30:1422
9. Nickoloff EL, Alderson PO. Radiation exposures to patients from CT: reality, public perception, and policy. AJR 2001; 177:285-287
10. Evans SH, Davis R, Cooke J, Anderson W. A comparison of radiation doses to the breast in computed tomographic chest examinations for two scanning protocols. Clin Radiol 1989; 40:45-46
11. van der Bruggen-Bogaarts BA, Broerse JJ, Lammers JW, van Waes PF, Geleijns J. Radiation exposure in standard and high-resolution chest CT scans. Chest 1995; 107:113-115
12. McCollough CH, Liu HH. Breast dose during electron-beam CT: measurement with film dosimetry. Radiology 1995; 196:153-157
13. Hall JL, Navarrete JL, Surprenant E, Sklansky J, Eisenman JI. Technical note: a new TLD-phantom measurement system for determining breast dose distribution levels in the right and left breast from spiral CT chest imaging. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2002; 3:324-327
14. Gubatova D, Varchenya V, Kristinya A. Tissue equivalent phantoms in radiological protection. Kernenergie 1989; 32:10-13
15. Toncheva G, Nguyen G, Barnes L, Frush DP, Sanei E, Yoshizumi TT. Physics characterization of μ-MOSFET detectors for use in CT dosimetry. (abstr) Med Phys 2004; 31:1850
16. Kuger RL, McCollough CH, Zink FE. Measurement of half-value layer in x-ray CT: a comparison of two noninvasive techniques. Med Phys 2000; 27:1915-1919
17. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site. NIST: X-ray mass attenuation coefficients - table 4. Available at: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMass-Coef/tab4.html. Accessed February 3, 2006
18. International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 60. Oxford, England: Pergamon, 1991
19. Yoshizumi TT, Nelson RC. Radiation issues with multidetector row helical CT. Crit Rev Comput Tomogr 2003; 44:95-117
20. Hamberg LM, Rhea JT, Hunter GJ, Thrall JH. Multi-detector row CT: radiation dose characteristics. Radiology 2003; 226:762-772
21. Mahesh M, Scatarige JC, Cooper J, Fishman EK. Dose and pitch relationship for a particular multislice CT scanner. AJR 2001; 177:1273-1275
22. Yoshizumi TT, Frush DP, Samei E, et al. Multidetector CT dose index assessment with MOSFET technology. (abstr) Med Phys 2004; 31:1841
23. Boice JD Jr, Land CE, Shore RE, Norman JE, Tokunaga M. Risk of breast cancer following low-dose radiation exposure. Radiology 1979; 131:589-597
24. Land CE, Tokunaga M, Koyama K, et al. Incidence of female breast cancer among atomic bomb survivors, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1950-1990. Radiat Res 2003; 160:707-717
25. Land CE, Tokunaga M, Tokuoka S, Nakamura N. Early-onset breast cancer in A-bomb survivors. (letter) Lancet 1993; 342:237
26. Hopper KD, King SH, Lobell ME, TenHave TR, Weaver JS. The breast: in-plane x-ray protection during diagnostic thoracic CT - shielding with bismuth radioprotective garments. Radiology 1997; 205:853-858
27. Fricke BL, Donnelly LF, Frush DP, et al. In-plane bismuth breast shields for pediatric CT: effects on radiation dose and image quality using experimental and clinical data. AJR 2003; 180:407-411