Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published February 10, 2015 Radiation Protection Dosimetry (2015), pp. 1–11
doi:10.1093/rpd/ncv004
OPTIMISED PAEDIATRIC CT DOSE AT A TERTIARY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN JAPAN: A 4-Y SINGLE-CENTRE ANALYSIS
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[email protected] Received 16 September 2014; revised 6 December 2014; accepted 9 January 2015 Since diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for children are not currently established in Japan, the authors determined local DRLs for the full range of paediatric CT examinations in a single tertiary care children’s hospital. A retrospective review of 4801 CT performance records for paediatric patients (