A Review of Doses for Dental Imaging in 2010–2020 and Development of a Web Dose Calculator

Table 5

Minimum, mean, and maximum values of effective and organ (bone marrow, brain, salivary gland, and thyroid) doses from intraoral, panoramic, and cone-beam computed tomography procedures reported in the selected publications.

Procedures		Effective dose (μSv)	Organ dose (μGy)
			Bone marrow	Brain	Salivary gland	Thyroid
Intraoral (n = 6)	Mean	1.32	0.63	2.36	22.79	7.97
	Min	0.60	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00
	Max	2.56	1.20	7.76	45.25	24.47
Panoramic (n = 21)	Mean	17.93	14.66	23.28	660.24	57.93
	Min	3.47	1.50	0.00	4.32	13.29
	Max	75.00	54.00	72.00	2887.00	256.00
Cone-beam computed tomography (n = 76)	Mean	121.09	254.78	471.65	2333.95	811.16
	Min	17.10	6.90	2.80	32.00	8.40
	Max	392.20	1478.00	4653.00	7775.00	8727.00