Use of Water Equivalent Diameter for Calculating Patient Size and Size-Specific Dose Estimates (SSDE) in CT: The Report of AAPM Task Group 220

Affiliations

• ¹ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
• ² Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
• ³ UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁴ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
• ⁵ Toshiba Medical Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁶ UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.
• ⁷ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
• ⁸ Landauer Medical Physics, Allison Park, PA.
• ⁹ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
• ¹⁰ GE HealthCare, Waukesha, WI.
• ¹¹ Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
• ¹² Stanford University, Stanford, CA.