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High correlation between radiation dose estimates for 256-slice CT obtained by highly parallelized hybrid Monte Carlo computation and solid-state metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor measurements in physical anthropomorphic phantoms.

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PURPOSE:Accurate, patient-specific radiation dosimetry for CT scanning is critical to optimize radiation doses and balance dose against image quality. While Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is often used to estimate doses from CT, comparison of estimates to experimentally measured values is lacking for advanced CT scanners incorporating novel design features. We aimed to compare radiation dose estimates from MC simulation to doses measured in physical anthropomorphic phantoms using metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in a 256-slice CT scanner. METHODS:Fifty MOSFETs were placed in organs within tissue-equivalent anthropomorphic adult and pediatric radiographic phantoms, which were scanned using a variety of chest, cardiac, abdomen, brain, and whole-body protocols on a 256-slice system. MC computations were performed on voxelized CT reconstructions of the phantoms using a highly parallel MC tool developed specifically for diagnostic X-ray energies and rapid computation. Doses were compared between MC estimates and physical measurements. RESULTS:The average ratio of MOSFET to MC dose in the in-field region was close to 1 (range, 0.96-1.12; mean ± SD, 1.01 ± 0.04), indicating outstanding agreement between measured and simulated doses. The difference between measured and simulated doses tended to increase with distance from the in-field region. The error in the MC simulations due to the limited number of simulated photons was less than 1%. The errors in the MOSFET dose determinations in the in-field region for a single scan were mainly due to the calibration method and were typically about 6% (8% if the error in the reading of the ionization chamber that was used for the MOSFET calibration was included). CONCLUSIONS:Radiation dose estimation using a highly parallelized MC method is strongly correlated with experimental measurements in physical adult and infant anthropomorphic phantoms for a wide range of scans performed on a 256-slice CT scanner. Incorporation into CT scanners of radiation-dose distribution estimation, employing the scanner's reconstructed images of the patient, may offer the potential for accurate patient-specific CT dosimetry.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Prinsen P,Trattner S,Wiegert J,Gerland EL,Shefer E,Morton T,Thompson CM,Cheng B,Halliburton SS,Einstein AJ

doi

10.1002/mp.13780

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-11-01 00:00:00

pages

5216-5226

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

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High correlation between radiation dose estimates for 256-slice CT obtained by highly parallelized hybrid Monte Carlo computation and solid-state metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor measurements in physical anthropomorphic phantoms.