There are case reports of injuries caused by the radiation from interventional radiology (IVR) X-ray systems. Therefore, the management of radiation doses in IVR is important. However, no detailed report has evaluated image quality for a large number of IVR X-ray systems. As a result, it is unclear whether the image quality of the X-ray equipment currently used in IVR procedures is optimal. We ...

BACKGROUND With the increase of X-ray use for medical diagnostic purposes, knowing the given doses is necessary in patients for comparison with reference levels. The concept of reference doses or diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) has been developed as a practical aid in the optimization of patient protection in diagnostic radiology. OBJECTIVES To assess the radiation doses to neonates from d...

The hyperconsciousness of radiation dose delivered to the patient during chest radiological X-ray procedures are prerequisite negate menace exposure. pinpoint this research is inquest doses received by for routine individual x-ray in health care system associated Kebbi State Government, Nigeria. Entrance Surface Dose and effective accordance with exposure factors collected real examinations wer...

background: in vivo dosimetry is a method for estimation of overall error in the delivered dose to the patients at the end of radiotherapy process. in this research, two methods for target dose calculation were evaluated on midline and central axis of photon beams in in vivo dosimetry of thorax fields. materials and methods: entrance and exit doses for anterior and lateral fields of thorax were...

The objective of this work was to estimate patient doses (dose-area product, organ dose, effective dose and entrance surface dose) for barium procedures. A total of 175 procedures, in 175 patients, for five different examination categories was analysed. Dose-area product was determined using a transmission ionization chamber. Organ dose and effective dose were assessed using a knowledge of the ...

introduction the present work describes a study in which, based on patient dose measurements, thermoluminescent dosimeters were used to obtain the diagnostic reference level arising from panoramic radiography. materials and methods ten panoramic units and a sample of 15 patients per x-ray unit were studied. two thermoluminescent dosimeter chips were placed on the skin surface of selected organs...

Evaluation of entrance surface dose and scattered to the pelvis for common radiological examinations in analog digital radiography: A phantom study

Background: The basic challenge with computed radiography (CR) systems is the large dynamic range which provides an opportunity for radiographers to gradually increase exposure factors and still produce good image quality, a practice that can lead to dose creep. Materials and Methods: The aim of this study was to establish  the entrance skin dose (ESD) values for nine selected examinations in t...