Cumulative dose
Cumulative dose is the total dose resulting from repeated exposures of ionizing radiation to an occupationally exposed worker to the same portion of the body, or to the whole body, over a period of time.
In medicine, the total amount of a drug or radiation given to a patient over time; for example, the total dose of radiation given in a series of radiation treatments or imaging exams. Recent studies have drawn attention to high cumulative doses (>100 mSv) to millions of patients undergoing recurrent CT scans during a 1- to 5-year period.[1][2][3] This has resulted in a debate on whether CT is really a low-dose imaging modality.[4]
See also
- Radioactivity
- Radiation poisoning
- Collective dose
- Committed dose equivalent
- Committed effective dose equivalent
References
- ^ Rehani, Madan M.; Yang, Kai; Melick, Emily R.; Heil, John; Šalát, Dušan; Sensakovic, William F.; Liu, Bob (2020). "Patients undergoing recurrent CT scans: assessing the magnitude". European Radiology. 30 (4): 1828–1836. doi:10.1007/s00330-019-06523-y. PMID 31792585. S2CID 208520824.
- ^ Brambilla, Marco; Vassileva, Jenia; Kuchcinska, Agnieszka; Rehani, Madan M. (2020). "Multinational data on cumulative radiation exposure of patients from recurrent radiological procedures: call for action". European Radiology. 30 (5): 2493–2501. doi:10.1007/s00330-019-06528-7. PMID 31792583. S2CID 208520544.
- ^ Rehani, Madan M.; Melick, Emily R.; Alvi, Raza M.; Doda Khera, Ruhani; Batool-Anwar, Salma; Neilan, Tomas G.; Bettmann, Michael (2020). "Patients undergoing recurrent CT exams: assessment of patients with non-malignant diseases, reasons for imaging and imaging appropriateness". European Radiology. 30 (4): 1839–1846. doi:10.1007/s00330-019-06551-8. PMID 31792584. S2CID 208520463.
- ^ Rehani, Madan M.; Szczykutowicz, Timothy P.; Zaidi, Habib (2020). "CT is still not a low-dose imaging modality". Medical Physics. 47 (2): 293–296. doi:10.1002/mp.14000. PMID 31883346. S2CID 209499310.
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