Calculating dose distribution from diagnostic CT depending on age and physique size of patients; Development of dose assessment web - system WAZA-ARI

Ono, Koji*; Koba, Yusuke*; Matsumoto, Shinnosuke*; Nakada, Yoshihiro*; Okuda, Yasuo*; Akahane, Keiichi*; Sato, Kaoru   ; Takahashi, Fumiaki  ; Yoshitake, Takayasu*; Hasegawa, Takayuki*; Katsunuma, Yasushi*; Ban, Nobuhiko*; Shimada, Yoshiya*; Kai, Michiaki*

In medical treatment, CT scan is useful diagnostic method. On the other hand, exposure doses derived from CT scans are dependent on body sizes of patients. Therefore, consideration of body sizes is essential for accurate dose assessment of individual patients. JAEA developed the CT dose calculator, WAZA-ARIv2 under the collaboration research project with the National Institute of Radiological Sciences and the Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences. WAZA-ARIv2 enable users to accurately calculate exposure doses of patients with sexes, ages (0y, 1y, 5y, 10y, 15y and adult) and fatness (small, large and extra-large body sizes). In the future, we will be plans to add the dose calculation functions corresponding to the scan conditions at low tube voltage and multi-detector row (more 80) CT devices to WAZA-ARIv2. We reported the system and future plans of WAZA-ARIv2 corresponding to dose calculation of patients with various body sizes.