Purpose: The purpose of this study is to create an organ dose database for pediatric individuals undergoing chest, abdomen/pelvis, and head computed tomography (CT) examinations, and to report the differences in absorbed organ doses, when anatomical differences exist for pediatric patients.
Methods: The GATE Monte Carlo (MC) toolkit was used to model the GE BrightSpeed Elite CT model. The simulated scanner model was validated with the standard Computed Tomography Dose Index (CTDI) head phantom. Twelve computational models (2.1-14 years old) were used. First, contributions to effective dose and absorbed doses per CTDI and per 100 mAs were estimated for all organs. Then, doses per CTDI were correlated with patient model weight for the organs inside the scan range for chest and abdomen/pelvis protocols. Finally, effective doses per dose-length product (DLP) were estimated and compared with the conventional conversion k-factors.
Results: The system was validated against experimental CTDI measurements. The doses per CTDI and per 100 mAs for selected organs were estimated. The magnitude of the dependency between the dose and the anatomical characteristics was calculated with the coefficient of determination at 0.5-0.7 for the internal scan organs for chest and abdomen/pelvis protocols. Finally, effective doses per DLP were compared with already published data, showing discrepancies between 13 and 29% and were correlated strongly with the total weight (R > 0.8) for the chest and abdomen protocols.
Conclusions: Big differences in absorbed doses are reported even for patients of similar age or same gender, when anatomical differences exist on internal organs of the body.
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