Cumulative effective dose and cancer risk for pediatric population in repetitive full spine follow-up imaging: How micro dose is the EOS microdose protocol?

With the use of computer simulation and analytic formulation, we obtained the cumulative effective dose and cancer risk at any age of exposure for pediatric patients of US and Hong Kong population undergoing repetitive microdose protocol full spine imaging. Girls would be at a statistically significant higher cumulative cancer risk than boys undergoing the same microdose full spine imaging protocol and the same follow-up schedule.