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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I would add to that, as an example, the ACR mammography phantom. It mimics a 4.2 cm 50% glandular breast. Sorry to again pick on rural West Virginia, but when I consulted there, large fatty breasts were more
common. Yet AGD, phantom scores, and CNR are based on a standard phantom and corresponding anatomical model. We all accept that, don’t we?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] [EXTERNAL] Re: ACR CT test question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">I’m sorry, Baojun, but I respectfully disagree with that. We do this very often with phantoms: given a clinically reasonable exposure, what do we see in the phantom.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’m sorry, Baojun, but I respectfully disagree with that. We do this very often with phantoms: given a clinically reasonable exposure, what do we see in the phantom. The only way to have any standardization
at all is to define the conditions of that exposure. Even if the “average” patient is bigger than 70 kg, it at least verifies that the protocol will give appropriate image quality. If image quality suffers for that defined patient size, then it likely suffers
at other sizes. From an accreditation standpoint, there is no way to provide P/F criteria for all patient sizes. We have to pick one and extrapolate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On the testing and support side, that is where the medical physicist can use their training and experience - to investigate what the clinical impact of that finding is. Does it hold across all patient sizes?
The QC Manual is not intended to limit what a physicist does; we can, and should, do more depending on what we see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Sep 17, 2026, at 9:52</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">AM, Li, Baojun via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <<a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I respectfully disagree. If the purpose of the phantom testing is to corroborate the clinical image submission, it doesn’t make sense to test a 70 kg phantom
when the typical patient population is closer to 90 kg.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I understand that the ACR CNR pass/fail criteria were established based on a 70 kg patient. However, I believe there is an important distinction between using
a standardized 70 kg reference for establishing the acceptance criterion and selecting the phantom size/protocol parameters that best represent the clinical patient population.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The phantom images should, in my view, be reasonably representative of the clinical images being submitted for evaluation.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Baojun</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bob
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 17, 2026 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Li, Baojun <<a href="mailto:baojunli@bu.edu"><span style="color:purple">baojunli@bu.edu</span></a>>;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu"><span style="color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>RE: [Intl_DxMedPhys] [EXTERNAL] Re: ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I go back to my statement that the local patient population should not be used to define “average.” This was supported by Doug Pfeiffer’s subsequent comments. The ACR committee based the CNR pass/fail criteria
on a 70 kg patient.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] [EXTERNAL] Re: ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">The issue to me is how to find the representative CTDIvol among your patient population. The issue is complicated by the fact that almost all scanners use ATCM
for clinical abd/pelv exams. If you have ACR CT Dose Index Registry or an enterprise</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The issue to me is how to find the representative CTDIvol among your patient population. The issue is complicated by the fact that almost all scanners use ATCM
for clinical abd/pelv exams.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you have ACR CT Dose Index Registry or an enterprise dose tracking software (Radmetrics, DoseWatch, Imalogix, Sectra, …), it gives you the average and median
CTDIvol among your patient population. You can then work it out the mAs necessary to achieve this CTDIvol. To me, this is easier than trying to figure out the average-sized patient by hand.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, September 17, 2026 10:53 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] [EXTERNAL] Re: ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">I just perform a scout/tomo on the 32 cm CTDI phantom and see what the scanner selects as a technique on the protocol you are testing for an adult abdomen. For
Siemens and Philips, the reference effective mAs is usually spot on. For GE with</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I just perform a scout/tomo on the 32 cm CTDI phantom and see what the scanner selects as a technique on the protocol you are testing for an adult abdomen. For Siemens and
Philips, the reference effective mAs is usually spot on. For GE with the noise index, you have to have some baseline to what the 32 cm usually needs. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Triston Dougall </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM Szczykutowicz, Timothy P via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <<a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu"><span style="color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">Tyler, I respectfully disagree with is "In a time and resource-constrained system, using a representative number of patient exams to estimate an average technique
is perfectly acceptable. " I think given the paper I shared in last</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tyler, I respectfully disagree with is "In a time and resource-constrained system, using a representative number of patient exams to estimate an average technique is perfectly acceptable. "</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I think given the paper I shared in last email, doing this where we know the end result is possibly tens or hundreds of percent off makes the clinical correlation between phantom IQ and patient IQ weak at
best.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I didn't know this. This justifies my frustration then with the point of all this ACR physics testing. What are we doing here folks...?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"One more thing I'll say about the ACR accreditation process, and this isn't a secret but isn't shouted from the rooftops: the clinical images that are submitted are not cross-checked against the phantom
techniques. The ACR gives physicists the benefit of the doubt that the techniques we list in the phantom data form are representative of the clinical protocols." </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My issue with this ACR testing is it is time consuming for physics to discuss with local techs and rads the details needed to fill out the forms and conduct the phantom and dose scanning. And these scans have
limited correlation with the real clinical image quality or doses. The hours my teams and I spend having these physics to tech and rad discussions during acr accreditation would be much better spent having protocol optimization discussions. I would love to
see a day where the clinical case submissions remained, and the physics portion abandoned these phantom scanning and dose submission requirements, and replaced with a more robust documentation of physics-rad-tech review of CT protocols. This is where the magic
happens and meaningful alterations to CT protocols occur. I've had multiple techs crying on the phone asking questions about the phantom and dose paperwork. Every time I do it as well, it is so counterintuitive. I know many of you on here make your living
knowing these forms inside and out, but I would encourage you to ask how much value to the site's patients you believe this process is helping. We are highly trained individuals, being reduced to filling out complicated paperwork by this process. Imagine if
the ACR process mandated review of AEC function over patient size, we so could check for protocols running too slow for smaller folks, or too fast (under-dosing) larger folks. Or had us review reformat creation practices that used thick slices to create reformats...
tons of IQ stuff we could be mandated to check with direct effects on image quality. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This ACR process has permeated what defines us as clinical imaging physicists. I would love to see the day when we our ABR MOC questions don't ask questions about specifics of ACR accreditation...are we experts
in compliance or experts in clinical imaging physics. I don't think ACR accreditation testing details should define clinical imaging physics. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We at UW have been running our CT-POW workshop the last two years, we had 60 people this year, and will open to 100 next year. This conference is all about ct protocol optimization, if you like my bent on
this ACR stuff, please consider attending next year. Sign up isn't started yet, but dates are August 9-11 2027. We charged $35 this year, and next year's price should be similarly nominal. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ctecc.radiology.wisc.edu/ct-pow/__;!!KGKeukY!1LY_DGnGwMew5D6cor5aBz1CgPuBoq6J7Q60vMbL0zquzbLQHB0RNm-v_7vn3LRldqZLOUi3t_eHa0wp1mC2vG9u8B_lQBT5EHHy6xUPDr3M0hHxNw$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:purple">https://ctecc.radiology.wisc.edu/ct-pow/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> You
also get CME/CE/CAMPEP credits is you are MD/tech/physicist. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To the OP and others new to the testing, for GE and canon GUIs, my team made this guide on filing out parts of the ACR paperwork, see below link</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uwgect.wiscweb.wisc.edu/general-resources/__;!!KGKeukY!1LY_DGnGwMew5D6cor5aBz1CgPuBoq6J7Q60vMbL0zquzbLQHB0RNm-v_7vn3LRldqZLOUi3t_eHa0wp1mC2vG9u8B_lQBT5EHHy6xUPDr1Lr8o14Q$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:purple">https://uwgect.wiscweb.wisc.edu/general-resources/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tyler, we should do a medical physics point counterpoint on this ;) </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Timothy P. Szczykutowicz, Ph.D., DABR<br>
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Departments of Radiology, Medical Physics and BME<br>
University of Wisconsin Madison<br>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, September 16, 2026 4:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Douglas Pfeiffer <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:xraydoug@me.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">xraydoug@me.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">Hi Everyone, I will humbly state that I think some folks are overthinking this. As has been pointed out, the range of WED in the abdominal area is huge; output
is exponentially related to patient size; and the ACR is asking for a single CTDI</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I will humbly state that I think some folks are overthinking this. As has been pointed out, the range of WED in the abdominal area is huge; output is exponentially related
to patient size; and the ACR is asking for a single CTDI number that will never represent the full range of CTDI values that could be used in a protocol. In a time and resource-constrained system, using a representative number of patient exams to estimate
an average technique is perfectly acceptable. If a facility has additional resources and access to better data, great! The accreditation program doesn't require that level of detailed analysis to get to an average technique, but if you want to do that, by
all means, do it. I don't want the ACR saying that there's one right way to find an average technique. We should use whatever tools are available to us and our professional judgement</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The question of what to do for new systems is a good one. Particularly for new technology (new recon methods, photon counting, dual energy, etc.), this obviously presents
challenges to figuring out average techniques when you're doing an acceptance test. This is where I think this listserv should be and is a very helpful resource. Except for a very few sites that are research centers for the major vendors, there's almost
always someone who reads this listserv who already has that scanner and has implemented successful protocols. Reach out and figure out their protocols. Acceptance testing, by definition, should be more thorough than annual testing, so maybe testing various
protocols to find the techniques that will achieve acceptable CNR would be a good idea. If we're able to verify that the reported CTDI is accurate, then we could spend more time figuring out how changes in technique factors impact image quality on any particular
scanner and then review clinical exams to make sure that the dose ranges and image quality are acceptable.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One more thing I'll say about the ACR accreditation process, and this isn't a secret but isn't shouted from the rooftops: the clinical images that are submitted are not
cross-checked against the phantom techniques. The ACR gives physicists the benefit of the doubt that the techniques we list in the phantom data form are representative of the clinical protocols. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 9:43 AM Douglas Pfeiffer <<a href="mailto:xraydoug@me.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">xraydoug@me.com</span></a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The CNR values in the manual were developed using clinical techniques on the phantom, 70 kg-ish adult abdomen and 20 kg-ish ped abdomen. The phantom was predetermined, so
the CNR values came from scanning that fixed phantom with cllnical techniques. So, no, you don’t want to scale the mAs down.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I had struggled a while with this very question as trying to find the average patient from some recent scans did not seem very representative at all. The comments I agree with that each health system has
a different “average” patient. So I moved to using DMS data by looking at the WED (water-equivalent diameter) vs. modulated output. The data was restricted to the WED for which our medium abdomen protocols were set (we have mainly GE scanners and use sm/med/lg
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Six months of data is analyzed, about 10,000 exams, and the mean and median patient weight for this sample is always around 70-74 kg. So I felt pretty good that this was our “average” patient. The corresponding
mAs values are then used for the CTDI phantom test and image quality test. It has also helped to properly set the manual backup techniques, which I usually pick the 75%ile values because there is enough dose headroom to stay under the DRL and guarantee decent
image quality for patients at the extreme of the size limit. The small and large protocols are then adjusted by noise index from these data. So far, unless I am missing something fundamental, out DIR results have been very decent and I believe this is a
representative sample of our average patients.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">One caveat I do see, though, is that our average patient is bigger than the ACR phantom by maybe 6-8 cm, and so the image quality result is overstated. Would it be more appropriate to scale the test mAs down
from our 27cm “average” patient dose to the 20cm ACR phantom and see if the CNR is still acceptable?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Just as the average BMI could be larger at a given facility, so can the amount of pediatrics patients in the targeted weight/age range. Many times, facilities might only do a handful of these pediatric
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Just as the average BMI could be larger at a given facility, so can the amount of pediatrics patients in the targeted weight/age range. Many times, facilities might only do a handful of these pediatric
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Just as the average BMI could be larger at a given facility, so can the amount of pediatrics patients in the targeted weight/age range. Many times, facilities might only do
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<b>To:</b> Tyler Fisher <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:sdtyler@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">sdtyler@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">The downside I see with basing the phantom scans on the “average” patient drawn from the institutions patient population is that if the average for the local population does not align with whatever
the ACR considers average, then pass / fail</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The downside I see with basing the phantom scans on the “average” patient drawn from the institutions patient population is that if the average for the local population does not align with whatever the ACR
considers average, then pass / fail criteria would not be appropriate for that institution. I used to consult in rural West Virginia where the average patient would be heavy when compared to most other definitions of average. So if a higher CTDIvol is needed
to produce acceptable image quality in this high-BMI population, the facility may fail if the CTDIvol is above the failure limit. The flip side to that is that the standard ACR image quality phantom was designed with a specific body model in mind. A high BMI
population would lead to the use of increased mAs or mAs and kV combination when scanning the phantom, which would result in image quality scores that do not represent the image quality of the clinical scans.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A50021">Robert J. Kobistek, MS, FACR, DABR, MRSE(MRSC™)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Castellar",serif;color:#A50021">RJK</span><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Colonna MT";color:#A50021"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#A50021">Medical Physics, Inc.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces+bob=rjkmedphys.com@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces+bob=rjkmedphys.com@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tyler Fisher via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2026 1:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Wait <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Matt.Wait@kp.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">Matt.Wait@kp.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hi Everyone, This has been a very good discussion. I'll add my two cents but also state up-front that I am the current chair of the ACR CT Physics Accreditation Sub-Committee, so there may be a
pro-ACR bias coming through. In general, the</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Everyone,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This has been a very good discussion. I'll add my two cents but also state up-front that I am the current chair of the ACR CT Physics Accreditation Sub-Committee, so there may be a pro-ACR bias coming through. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In general, the ACR technical standards, QC Manuals, and Accreditation program requirements are overlapping but independent. The QC manuals are assembled and maintained by ACR staff and committees of volunteer
members who represent the accreditation programs and other stakeholders. Slight variations in language or specifics like this are to be expected.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The intent of the "average-sized" language in the accreditation program, as I interpret it, is site and scanner specific. When I test a CT system, I will look through the patients scanned recently for what
I think is their standard adult abdomen protocol. I check the scout first to make sure they're not tiny or bariatric, then I'll scroll through the primary axial images until I get to mid-liver and record the mA. I'll take an average of 6 or 8 patients.
I don't look at patient sex or age. If a site has additional data (ACR DIR or dose-tracking software) that will give me techniques for an average-sized patient, I'll use that, but more often than not, the sites that I visit do not. This method would be more
accurate than my average of 6 or 8 scans, but I think we have to remember that the majority of scanners in the country aren't being monitored like this. The ACR would love for everyone to participate in the ACR DIR, but this is not a requirement for accreditation.
Also, we're measuring and reporting a single CTDI value for a protocol whose standard deviation of CTDI values is huge. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For new scanners, Scott's suggested methods all seem reasonable. I tend to take my knowledge of similar (or exactly the same make/model) scanners, the site's standard protocols for other scanners if available,
default protocols, and my own personal expertise to come up with an average technique. I will note in my report that the protocols tested may not match the clinical protocols established during applications training and the next time I lay hands on that scanner,
I'm going to closely review what they're actually doing. Also, I'll make sure at acceptance testing that the reported CTDI values match what I measure, so that if the protocols are different than what I tested, at least they'll know that the doses are accurate. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The discussion about finding a "21 or 23 cm effective diameter patient" to set as the "average-patient" is wrong. The "DFOV close to 21 cm" is strictly based on the size of the image quality phantom - it
has nothing to do with an average patient. If the image quality phantom was 30 cm diameter, we'd tell you to scan with a DFOV close to 31 cm.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Last thing I'll say is this: The ACR believes that qualified diagnostic medical physicists have the expertise and integrity to perform quality medical physics testing on scanners. Can someone iteratively
increase dose to get CNR to pass? Of course. Can we cheat the average technique down to make sure that we're within the dose thresholds? Sure. The accreditation programs work on the assumption that we're all doing our best. The programs try to balance
being overly prescriptive on how to do every single test vs. allowing physicists free-reign to do whatever we want. Over 25 years of the CT accreditation program, I think we've gotten pretty close to the right balance, but as the chair, I'm open to suggestions
of how we can improve.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tyler Fisher</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 1:53</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PM Matt Wait via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">To clarify: I had been going on the assumption that 70 kg correlated with a patient with an abdomen of about 21 cm in diameter. Maybe I had gotten it mixed up with the phantom diameter somewhere
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To clarify: I had been going on the assumption that 70 kg correlated with a patient with an abdomen of about 21 cm in diameter. Maybe I had gotten it mixed up with the phantom
diameter somewhere down the line.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The point is, I don't really have any idea what the abdomen of a 70 kg patient "looks like". It would be much easier to have a rough estimate of an abdomen diameter range to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Douglas Pfeiffer <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:xraydoug@me.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">xraydoug@me.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2026 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Wait <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Matt.Wait@kp.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">Matt.Wait@kp.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> DxMedPhys List <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>;
Bob Kobistek <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:bob@rjkmedphys.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">bob@rjkmedphys.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The 21 cm DFOV is to make it easier to analyze - nothing to do with patient size. It doesn’t impact dose in any way. Using a small Scan FOV is to reduce non-uniformities due to the bowtie not being matched
to the object size on some scanners. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best regards,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Doug</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Douglas Pfeiffer, MS, DABR FACR, FAAPM (he/him)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Sep 14, 2026, at 2:42</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">PM, Matt Wait <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Matt.Wait@kp.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:purple">Matt.Wait@kp.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">That's good to hear, that's the practice I've been using. But I have never found a good reference for correlating the abdomen diameter (21 cm?) with 70 kg.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Douglas Pfeiffer <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:xraydoug@me.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">xraydoug@me.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2026 1:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Wait <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Matt.Wait@kp.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">Matt.Wait@kp.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> DxMedPhys List <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Best regards,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Doug</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Doug, how did you envision determining the automatic tube current selection for Standard Man?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces+matt.wait=kp.org@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces+matt.wait=kp.org@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>
on behalf of Douglas Pfeiffer via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2026 1:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bob Kobistek <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:bob@rjkmedphys.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">bob@rjkmedphys.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Cc:</b> DxMedPhys List <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] ACR CT test question</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">On Sep 9, 2026, at 1:45 PM, Bob Kobistek via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:purple">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I also beat my head against a wall searching for answers to these questions when the ACR CT accreditation program was started. I stopped overthinking it, and now I pretty much wing it.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For average size patient, I look through patient scans to find one with an A-P dimension through the abdomen of around 23 cm. If I can find more than one (hard to find nowadays), I’ll toss out the outliers
and take an average of the mAs values.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For new scanners I use nearly all the options you presented. If it’s a scanner with a similar model in use at the facility, I refer to patients scanned on the existing scanners. If it’s a scanner that I see
at other facilities, I’ll make adjustments for differences in protocols and use that. If it’s a scanner I’ve never seen before, I’ll pull up the manufacturer’s suggested protocols and take a guess at the mAs when TCM is used. If I use the second or third option,
I’ll take a look at patient scans once the scanner has been operating for a few weeks. If I can make adjustments to my measurements based on the clinical data, I will. If I have to, I’ll repeat the measurements using the clinical protocols. If the site is
going to be ACR accredited I will always make a second trip so I can use the actual protocols and clinical mAs values for accreditation, not matter which of the three options above that I use.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There is very little guidance on how to chose mAs (and kVp when applicable) for automated technique selection. So we use out best judgment.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A50021">Robert J. Kobistek, MS, FACR, DABR, MRSE(MRSC™)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#467886">intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list-bounces@lists.osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">All, I apologize as this has no doubt been discussed in the past, but I have a two part inquiry related to ACR CT testing. I am happy to clarify directly with the ACR, but I figured I would touch
base with this forum first. (Especially since</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I apologize as this has no doubt been discussed in the past, but I have a two part inquiry related to ACR CT testing. I am happy to clarify directly with the ACR, but I figured I would touch base with this
forum first. (Especially since only part 1 would be good to ask the ACR directly.)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Part 1: The ACR’s scanning instructions webpage and the CT QC manual both give a weight range for the pediatric abdominal exam of 40-50lbs, but only the QC manual has a weight for the adult abdomen (i.e.
70 kg, ~154 lbs). The webpage merely says “average sized patient”. The exclusion of the 70 kg reference could be an accidental omission, but that requires the same omission to have been repeated in multiple different locations on their webpage. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“Average sized” could be interpreted to mean average across the entire US population, the region a CT scanner is in, or the specific patient population a specific CT scanner sees (which could be massively
different if the scanner is the go-to scanner for bariatric patients.) The CDC says the current adult average weights are 199 lbs for men and 171.8 lbs for women. (Both significantly more than 154). In addition, the ACR’s mandatory dose calculation sheet calculates
the adult abdomen SSDE for a 35 cm water equivalent diameter. While you can’t exactly convert abdominal water equivalent diameter to a patient weight, that value would likely correspond to a patient significantly heavier than 154 lbs. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Has anyone specifically seen anything that dictates which is definitively correct for determining what techniques to set, and by extension, determine whether or not the scanner is really passing the CNR test?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Part 2: In practice, I am curious how people are determining the mA that CT scanners are selecting for the “average”, particularly for brand new scanners without much/any historic patient data. I can imagine
four different general approaches. 1) Analysis of historical data aggregated by a dose metric monitoring system like Radimetrics. 2) Manually looking for a few historical patients that look to be roughly “average size” and then averaging the mA from a representative
slice from a few of those studies. 3) For new systems, using values from a similar system with similar settings. 4) Conducting scans of a standard (e.g. their CTDI phantom), seeing what the CT scanner picks for mA, and then applying a scaling factor to that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Scott</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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