Children; Overview - Siemens SOMATOM Emotion 6 Application Manual

Children

Overview

This folder contains 24 organ specific pediatric proto-
cols with 2 to 5 age or weight dependant subgroups.
For your convenience, the protocols are numbered
according to the body regions, i. e. from Head to Extre-
mities.
The scan protocols for Head and Neck regions are
defined according to age, and the scan protocols for
the other body regions are defined according to body
weight.
As a default, the effective mAs is set to the lowest
category, e. g. less than 6 months in head modes, and
the suggested effective mAs values for the other cate-
gories are written in additional lines in the chronicle.
Whenever possible 80 kV or 110 kV are used instead of
130 kV, either to exploit the significantly higher image
contrast of iodine contrast media at 80 kV or to reach a
lower dose level than possible with 130 kV.
• Head Angio
For head CT Angio studies
• HeadAngio06s
For head CT Angio studies, using a 0.6 sec.
rotation time (optional)
• Head
For routine head spiral studies
• HeadSeq
For routine head sequential studies
• Sinus
For routine sinus spiral studies
• InnerEar
High Resolution mode for inner ear spiral studies
with 6 x 0.5 mm slice collimation (optional)
• NeckRoutine
For routine neck spiral studies
• CarotidCTA
For carotid CT Angio studies
• CarotidCTA06s
For carotid CT Angio studies, using a 0.6 sec.
rotation time (optional)
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