Estimation of the radiation dose in pregnancy: an automated patient-specific model using convolutional neural networks.
Journal:
European radiology
Published Date:
Jun 21, 2019
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The conceptus dose during diagnostic imaging procedures for pregnant patients raises health concerns owing to the high radiosensitivity of the developing embryo/fetus. The aim of this work is to develop a methodology for automated construction of patient-specific computational phantoms based on actual patient CT images to enable accurate estimation of conceptus dose.