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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Radiol. 2015 Jul 4;45(12):1771–1780. doi: 10.1007/s00247-015-3400-2

Table 3.

Organ doses from chest–abdomen–pelvis CT studies for two patients

Organ Dose (mGy/100 mAs)
8-month-old girl 15-year-old boy
Adrenals 13.5 9.7
Bladder wall 14.6 10.8
Esophagus 13.3 10.5
Gallbladder 14.0 11.2
Heart 15.0 12.3
Kidneys 15.1 11.4
Large intestines 14.6 11.6
Liver 14.2 11.5
Lungs 14.1 11.4
Pancreas 14.3 10.9
Skin 12.3 9.1
Small intestines 14.6 12.4
Spleen 13.3 10.4
Stomach wall 13.7 11.0
Prostate — 8.4
Testes — 11.2
Ovaries 14.2 —
Uterus 13.8 —
Breast (mammary) N/A 11.2
Bone surface 44.5 29.9
Red marrow 12.1 8.6