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Reducing radiation dose to selected organs by selecting the tube start angle in MDCT helical scans: A Monte Carlo based study
Purpose: Previous work has demonstrated that there are significant dose variations with a sinusoidal pattern on the peripheral of a CTDI 32 cm phantom or on the surface of an anthropomorphic phantom when helical CT scanning is performed, resulting in the creation of “hot” spots or “cold” spots. The purpose of this work was to perform preliminary investigations into the feasibility of exploiting these variations to reduce dose to selected radiosensitive organs solely by varying the tube start angle in CT scans
An ordinal measure of population health
We propose a population-level health index that addresses two of the main concerns of
existing health measures: (1) the biases in self-assessed health measures, and (2) the difficulties
associated with making comparisons across populations afflicted by a variety of
conditions in a context in which multi-morbidity is high. Starting from a set of general
axioms, we derive a partial order index that ranks health across populations based on the
relative prevalence of various conditions within these populations, and that can be readily
applied to many existing health surveys. We illustrate the use of our health measure by
applying it to data from the National Health Interview Survey in order to examine health
differences across racial groups in the U.S