Table 3.

Effective dose per 100 mAs (mSv/100 mAs), The Dose Length Product (DLP) per 100 mAs (mGy.cm/100 mAs) and k-factor (mSv.mGy⁻¹cm⁻¹) 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.

Imaging protocol	Effective dose (mSv/100 mAs)		aDLP (mGy.cm/100 mAs)		bDLP (mGy.cm/100 mAs)		ak-factor (mSv.mGy−1cm−1)		bk-factor (mSv.mGy−1cm−1)
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Liver	1.94	1.99	97.04	75.47	107.83	86.26	0.020	0.026	0.018	0.023
Chest	1.32	2.28	107.79	97.00	118.58	107.79	0.012	0.024	0.011	0.021
Cardiac	0.71	1.57	43.55	43.11	54.34	53.89	0.016	0.036	0.013	0.029
Abdomen-pelvis	2.64	2.92	183.26	161.68	194.04	172.47	0.014	0.018	0.014	0.017

DLP: The dose length product

^acalculated by the real scan length;

^bcalculated by the scan length with margin