Table 4.

Organ dose per 100 mAs (mGy/100 mAs) for Single Energy CT (SECT) and the Dual-energy Computed Tomography (DECT) for male and female cardiac protocol from this study and other studies for different organs

Imaging protocol	Cardiac (Present study)		Cardiac (Pakravan et al. [ 7 ])
Organ	Male	Female	Male	Female
Bladder	0.07	0.09	0.26	0.30
Brain	0.08	0.09	0.29	0.33
Breast	-	5.56	-	18.80
Colon	0.11	0.14	0.43	0.48
Esophagus	1.84	2.40	8.11	8.57
Liver	0.61	0.85	2.76	2.85
Lung	3.42	4.35	14.81	15.30
Skeleton	1.76	2.74	7.59	9.70
Skin	0.58	0.75	2.52	2.71
Stomach	0.48	0.60	2.06	2
Thyroid	0.10	0.23	0.46	0.95
Adrenals	0.69	0.93	3.15	3.04
Gall bladder	0.25	0.36	1.08	1.19
Heart	4.60	5.31	18.42	17.8
Kidneys	0.27	0.36	1.17	1.21
Pancreas	0.57	0.79	2.45	2.60
Small intestine	0.11	0.15	.46	0.51
Spleen	0.51	0.67	2.2	2.24
Thymus	4.23	4.27	19.35	18.20
Uterus	-	0.09	-	0.33
Upper large intestine	0.06	-	0.22	-