
overexposures, FDA is encouraging facilities that perform CT procedures to be aware of the dose indices displayed on the control panel. These indices include the volume CT dose index, expressed "milligray" (mGy), and the dose-length product, expressed in "milligray-centimeter" (mGy-cm). Before a patient is scanned, the operator should make sure that the values displayed for these indices correspond reasonably to those normally associated with the procedure being performed. These indices ...
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