The objective of this study was to determine the Dose Area Product (DAP) for sample of 70 patients (40 Females and 30 Males) undergoing different types of digital radiography (DR) examinations at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital (KAUH), Saudi Arabia. This study was done through implementing a quality control (QC) program initiated by The Center for Training and radiation protection, KAU. It ...

A 23-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus and secondary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome presented with 1-month history of persistent low back pain radiating to the left flank. She had been maintained on lowdose corticosteroid and anticoagulant for more than 3 years. Plain radiography of the lumbar spine revealed no abnormality. However, L-spine magnetic resonance images (MRIs) sh...

Solitary osteochondromas, which are the most common benign bone tumors of long bones, are rarely found in the vertebral column. A 16-year-old female patient presented with a hard palpable mass at lower lumbar region like a congenital deformity. Plain radiography illustrated a well-defined solid mass arising from the posterior elements of the L3 and ruled out any congenital anomalies. A computed...

Introduction: Paediatric patients deserve special attention because of the higher radiation risks compared with adults. The main purpose of this study is to determine patient dose and diagnostic reference level for Paediatric through Entrance Surface Dose (ESD) calculations in common X-ray examination and to establish Paediatric national DRLs in digital radiography in Iran. <...

PURPOSE Many factors such as lumbar instability and spinopelvic alignment are associated with low back pain. Our purpose was to analyze the pelvic incidence - one of spinopelvic alignment parameters- and spine instability correlations in patients with chronic low back pain. METHODS Fifty-two patients suffering from chronic low back pain entered this case control study. Lateral spine radiograp...

Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine refers to a syndrome in which an intervertebral disc with adjacent spine structures is compromised, this can be due to aging process associated with pathology. Thirty five percent of asymptomatic individuals may have degenerative spine findings, including: disc degeneration, modic changes, disc bulges, facet joint arthropathy and spinal stenosis. Plain r...

Thirty-five children with lumbar spine injuries were evaluated with computed tomography and plain radiography following blunt trauma. The majority of these children (31) were injured in motor vehicle crashes; most of them (27 of 35, 77%) were restrained by lap-styled safety belts. The other mechanisms of injury included motor vehicle crashes involving a pedestrian (2), a fall (1), and a crush (...

Computed radiography (CR) has many advantages compared with conventional radiographs, especially in image processing. Although CR is being used in chest radiography and mammography, it has not been applied to spine imaging. The purposes of this study were to formulate a set of new CR processing parameters and to test whether the resultant whole-spine radiographs visualized the spine more clearl...