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. 2020 Aug 17;11:96. doi: 10.1186/s13244-020-00899-y

Table 4.

DRLci for chest CT

Chest CT
References Lung cancer Interstitial lung disease (axial) Interstitial lung disease (helical) Pulmonary embolism CCTA Calcium scoring
ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm) ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm) ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm) ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm) ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm) ctdivol (mgy) dlp (mgy.cm)
Castellano et al. (UK) 2017 [22] 173
Danish Health Authority (DK) 2015 [10] 16 620 13 500 29 230
Foley et al. (IE) 2012 [23] 7 276 13 432
Fukushima et al. (JP) 2012 [24] 1510
Schegerer et al. (DE) 2019 [20] 20 330 (d)
Hausleiter et al. 2009 [25] 69,6 1152
Japan Network for Research on Medical Exposures (JP) 2015 [26] 90 1400
Kanal et al. (USA) 2017 [27] 19 557
Mafalanka et al. (FR) 2015 [28] 870
Palorini et al. (IT) 2014 [29] 1208 131
Public Health England (UK) 2016 [11] 12 610 4 140 12 350 13 440
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (FI) 2013 [30] 11 430
Salama et al. (EG) 2017 [31] 22 421
Schegerer et al. (DE) 2017 [12] 15 300

36 (e)

19 (d)

551 (e)

270 (d)

8 119
Treier et al. (CH) 2010 [21] 1000 150
Van der Molen et al. (NL) 2013 [13] 276 371 671 51
Wachabauer et al. (AT) 2017 [14] 400
Geryes et al. (FR) 2019 [15] 8 310
Ireland (IE) MERU 2017 [16] 7 (a) 241 (a) 7 (a) 210 (a) 9 (a) 234 (a)
7 (b) 272 (b) 7 (b) 249 (b) 12 (b) 278 (b)
Norway (NO) 2018 [17] 9 350 9 300
Sweden (SE) 2019 [18] 9 350
Public Health England (UK) 2018 [19] 170 (c)
280 (d)
380 (e)
Netherlands (NL) 2012 [32] 10 350

aFor female patients

bFor male patients

cProspective, no padding

dProspective, with padding

eRetrospective, with gating