Patient Dimensions From a Single CT Image Provide a Clinically Practical and Accurate Method for Dose Estimation in Canine Abdominal CT Imaging
Claire Whittaker, Monique Mayer, Matthew Hutcheson, Sally Sukut · 2026
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Claire Whittaker, Monique Mayer, Matthew Hutcheson, and Sally Sukut report a study from two thousand twenty-six on estimating radiation dose for dogs from a single CT image. Size-specific dose estimates scale the scanner's reported dose by patient size, but the standard method needs attenuation data across images. A simpler geometric method could work at the scanner console.
The team studied abdominal scans from thirty dogs in three weight bands. Four simple size measures, height, width, their sum, and their geometric mean, were compared against the attenuation-based water-equivalent diameter. The combined height-plus-width measure tracked it best, with very high correlation. Scanner-reported doses underestimated the size-adjusted dose by half. The authors conclude that one-image size measures give a practical, accurate dose estimate for canine abdominal CT.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Claire Whittaker, Monique Mayer, Matthew Hutcheson, Sally Sukut |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |