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Table 5 Entrance surface dose (ESD) and other parameters for newborn between 22 and 28 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

1.20 ± 0.01

20 × 20

54

5

100

25

M

3.2

0.62

2

1.73 ± 0.17

30 × 23.5

59

6.3

100

28

M

3.7

0.57

3

1.97 ± 0.12

27 × 27

60

5

100

27

M

4.2

0.59

4

1.14 ± 0.03

26 × 18

52

6.3

100

25

M

4.0

0.60

5

1.37 ± 0.15

22 × 20.7

58

6.3

100

28

M

2.5

0.47

6

0.74 ± 0.01

21 × 16

56

5

100

27

M

3.8

0.48

7

0.95 ± 0.02

19 × 19

57

6.3

100

24

F

4.2

0.44

8

2.01 ± 0.03

21 × 15

59

6.3

100

27

F

3.7

0.60

9

1.37 ± 0.03

28 × 24

57

6.3

100

24

F

4.3

0.53

10

0.73 ± 0.21

26.3 × 21

60

5

100

28

F

3.2

0.50