Table 2:

Radiation doses of individual organs/tissues in CTP, s-PBV, and w-PBV protocols measured from 2 repeated TLD exposure experiments^a

Tissue or Organ	CTP	s-PBV	w-PBV
Brain	163.55 ± 89.45	52.29 ± 35.31	107.51 ± 34.20
Salivary gland	13.94 ± 1.35	3.03 ± 0.61	137.75 ± 16.77
Thyroid	4.44 ± 1.64	1.20 ± 0.28	12.68 ± 2.48
Thymus	0.23 ± 0.08	0.10 ± 0.07	0.46 ± 0.15
Esophagus	1.18 ± 0.36	0.60 ± 0.08	2.61 ± 0.36
Breast	0.61 ± 0.17	0.19 ± 0.07	1.16 ± 0.17
Lung	0.50 ± 0.12	0.28 ± 0.09	1.19 ± 0.20
Stomach	0.06 ± 0.04	0.07 ± 0.06	0.16 ± 0.08
Liver	0.08 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.07
Kidney	0.64 ± 0.74	0.05 ± 0.02	0.18 ± 0.03
Small intestine	0.03 ± 0.05	0.03 ± 0.05	0.04 ± 0.05
Colon	0.00 ± 0.00	0.01 ± 0.00	0.01 ± 0.01
Bladder	0.05 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.05
Gonads	0.06 ± 0.03	0.03 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.04
Bone marrow	0.43 ± 0.15	0.32 ± 0.13	1.12 ± 0.36
Skin	0.45 ± 0.29	0.12 ± 0.06	0.65 ± 0.11
Bone surface	0.42 ± 0.15	0.32 ± 0.15	1.12 ± 0.50
Effective doseb	2.77 ± 1.59	0.87 ± 0.55	3.91 ± 0.78

^aUnless otherwise specified, data are in millisieverts.

^bThe sum of organ doses are weighted by the tissue-weighting factor recommended in the International Commission on Radiation Protection number 103.