Table 2.

Organ dose per 100 mAs (mGy/100 mAs) for liver, chest, cardiac, and abdomen-pelvis imaging protocols for the dual-energy Computed Tomography (DECT) obtained by simulation of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) male and female phantoms

Organ	Liver		Chest		Cardiac		Abdomen-pelvis
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Bladder	0.41	0.36	0.12	0.15	0.07	0.09	6.53	6.84
Brain	0.07	0.08	0.22	0.23	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.11
Breast	-	0.76		6.19		5.56	-	1.04
Colon	2.74	2.55	0.20	0.24	0.11	0.14	5.28	5.90
Esophagus	2.08	2.09	3.79	4.45	1.84	2.40	2.17	2.22
Liver	4.79	5.47	1.46	1.98	0.61	0.85	5.05	5.84
Lung	1.90	1.81	5.53	6.18	3.42	4.35	2.04	1.99
Skeleton	3.00	3.00	3.96	5.33	1.76	2.74	5.03	5.67
Skin	1.29	1.17	1.41	1.54	0.58	0.75	2.37	2.46
Stomach	6.22	5.88	0.98	1.24	0.48	0.60	6.55	6.32
Thyroid	0.07	0.13	1.92	2.40	0.10	0.23	0.09	0.17
Adrenals	4.56	5.21	1.69	2.32	0.69	0.93	4.74	5.44
Gall bladder	5.53	5.93	0.49	0.66	0.25	0.36	5.93	6.57
Heart	2.29	1.98	5.62	6.24	4.60	5.31	2.41	2.15
Kidneys	6.00	6.26	0.54	0.67	0.27	0.36	6.36	6.77
Pancreas	5.03	5.28	1.11	1.47	0.57	0.79	5.22	5.57
Small intestine	3.36	2.71	0.21	0.26	0.11	0.15	5.60	6.10
Spleen	5.28	5.31	1.07	1.44	0.51	0.67	5.54	5.65
Thymus	0.57	0.49	7.20	7.11	4.23	4.27	0.68	0.62
Uterus	-	0.65		0.16		0.09	-	6.45
Upper large intestine	0.22	-	0.11	-	0.06		2.40	-