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Table 5 The measured CT number accuracy of different material in quality assurance phantom axial brain protocol at 120kv and 500mAs

From: Image quality and radiation dose assessment for the clinically applied 16-slice CT scanner using PMMA phantom and quality assurance phantom

Material

Actual (HU)

Measured CT number (HU)

SD (HU)

Result

Air

 − 1000

 − 66.7

3.5

Pass

Bone

900

936

7.3

Pass

Water

0

3.2

4

Pass

Acrylic

120

138

3.7

Pass

Polyethylene

 − 95

108

3.7

Pass