“…Efforts to establish DRLs for all medical imaging procedures in Saudi Arabia are relatively recent, necessitating the optimization of practices to achieve higher patient safety standards [26]. Al-Qahtani et al [27] surveyed 10 nuclear medicine departments in different Saudi Arabian hospitals in 2021 and suggested NDRLs for SPECT/CT scans using administration activity (AA) in MBq and SPECT/CT protocols. They compared their proposed NDRL with those of Croatia, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Brazil, and Japan for AA in MBq and also with those of Japan, Nordic countries, the UK, Kuwait, and Switzerland for the CT components of hybrid imaging SPECT/CT devices.…”