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

Table 7

Minimum, mean, and maximum values of effective and organ (bone marrow, brain, salivary gland, and thyroid) doses from cone-beam computed tomography procedures by field-of-view area (FOV width × height, cm²) reported in the selected publications.

FOV area (cm^2)		Effective dose (μSv)	Organ dose (μGy)
			Bone marrow	Brain	Salivary gland	Thyroid
Small (<50) (n = 20)	Mean	96.5	262.8	144.2	1984.7	312.0
	Min	17.1	15.2	14.4	336.3	38.6
	Max	220.2	1052.0	760.0	4352.0	1252.0
Medium (50–150) (n = 32)	Mean	113.7	246.4	184.9	2137.2	780.7
	Min	28.0	6.9	2.8	32.0	8.4
	Max	298.0	1478.0	1155.0	4700.0	3533.0
Large (>150) (n = 24)	Mean	151.4	259.3	1126.8	2887.3	1267.7
	Min	31.0	10.0	124.0	738.3	47.0
	Max	392.2	1034.0	4653.0	7775.0	8727.0