Skip to main content

Table 2 Entrance surface dose (ESD) and other parameters for newborn between 1 and 7 days

From: Estimation of dose and cancer risk to newborn from chest X-ray in South-South Nigeria: a call for protocol optimization

Patient

Mean ESD (mGy)

Field size (cm2)

kVp

mAs

FFD

Age (days)

Sex

Weight (Kg)

Height (m)

1

0.94 ± 0.01

23 × 23

54

5

100

1

M

4

0.43

2

1.80 ± 0.17

30 × 24

57

6.3

100

7

M

3.5

0.57

3

1.10 ± 0.12

22 × 17

60

5

100

2

M

2.7

0.40

4

0.73 ± 0.03

18 × 12

54

6.3

100

1

M

1.7

0.47

5

0.32 ± 0.15

24 × 18.5

54

5

100

1

F

1.2

0.44

6

1.03 ± 0.01

21 × 18

55

6.3

102

3

F

2

0.39

7

1.19 ± 0.02

21 × 17

56

6.3

100

6

F

3.1

0.51

8

1.33 ± 0.03

20 × 18

57

6.3

100

5

F

2.7

0.42

9

0.83 ± 0.03

24 × 24

57

5

100

3

F

3.1

0.40

10

1.65 ± 0.21

30 × 22

59

6.3

104

7

F

2.3

0.56