Comparison of liver-dose results. a Plot of CTDIvol-normalized liver-dose relationship with body circumference as compared to findings of Turner et al. [28] (dashed line) for abdominopelvic study (120 kVp, body bowtie filter, pitch 1.0 and collimation 28.8–40 mm). Data normalized to CTDIvol from 32-cm-diameter phantom. b Plot of exponential fit of CTDIvol-normalized liver dose to abdominopelvic diameter as compared to data from Tian et al. [24] (dashed line) for abdominopelvic study (120 kVp, small bowtie filter, pitch 1.375, 40-mm collimation)