Table 1 The correlation coefficients between age with body size and radiation dose.

From: Body physical parameters instead of water equivalent diameter to calculate size-specific dose estimate in adult chest CT

 

All patients

Male patients

Female patients

Height

− 0.185

− 0.326

− 0.33

Weight

0.209

0.119

0.262

BMI

0.379

0.298

0.44

Dw

0.399

0.291

0.483

CTDIvol

0.358

0.301

0.394

SSDW

0.286

0.261

0.271

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