Determining patient abdomen thickness from a single digital radiograph with a computational model: clinical results from a proof of concept study

摘要

Objective: A computational model has been created to estimate the abdominal thickness of a patient following an X-ray examination; its intended application is assisting with patient dose audit of paediatric X-ray examinations. This work evaluates the accuracy of the computational model in a clinical setting for adult patients undergoing anteroposterior (AP) abdomen X-ray examinations.