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Table 2.

Pilot data for three regions for helical chest protocol on 320-row scanner, along with weighted equivalent dose per gender.

	Region of	Female weighted	Male weighted	Average weighted
	organ i	equivalent dose (mSv)	equivalent dose (mSv)	equivalent dose (mSv)
Brain	1	0.01	0.01	0.01
Salivary glands	1	0.13	0.13	0.13
Thyroid	1	0.84	0.89	0.87
Region 1
	$\hat{a} = 0.035$ , weighted voltage¹ ${\hat{e}}_{1} = 3.3$ mV
Cranial-to-thorax
Lung	2	1.77	1.78	1.78
Esophagus	2	0.56	0.58	0.57
Breast	2	1.72	2.25	1.98
Region 2
	$\hat{b} = 1.180$ , weighted voltage¹ ${\hat{e}}_{2} = 23.8$ mV
Thorax
Stomach	3	2.06	2.06	2.06
Liver	3	0.52	0.54	0.53
Colon	3	0.13	0.13	0.13
Bladder	3	0.00	0.00	0.00
Gonads	3	0.02	0.01	0.01
Region 3
	$\hat{c} = 0.002$ , weighted voltage¹ ${\hat{e}}_{3} = 0.6$ mV
Caudal-to-thorax
Bone marrow	1,2,3	0.44	0.47	0.45
Bone surface	1,2,3	0.04	0.04	0.04
Remainder	1,2,3	1.05	1.10	1.08

Weighting based on tissue weighting factors, per spots in the same region.