Background: One of the means of assessing dose to patients from Computed tomography (CT) procedure is through the determination of the skin entrance dose (ESD) with the appreciation of the concern that ocular exposure effects from CT scan includes possible induction of cancer and cataract. Due to the relatively more recent introduction of CT scans, little work has been done in this area in the ...

In most countries of European Union legislation requires the determination of the total skin dose to patient resulting from interventional procedures to assess the risk of deterministic effect. To this end, various dose indicators like dose area product (DAP), cumulative dose (CD) and entrance dose at the patient plane (EFD) are used in clinical practice. The study aims at relating those dose i...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the radiation dose in patients undergoing liver angiographic procedure and verify the usefulness of different dose measurements to prevent deterministic effects. Gafchromic film, MicroMOSFET data and DIAMENTOR device of the X-ray system were used to characterize the examined interventional radiology (IR) procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS A liver...

The applications of interventional radiology (IVR) increasingly are being used in clinical examinations, where they tend to extend examination time. In addition, the risk of occupational exposure necessarily is increasing with this technology. In this study, the dose distributions in a sliced acrylic-acid phantom involving the bore for each irradiation condition were measured using a thermolumi...

Cat scratch disease is a non-epidemic infection caused by Gram negative bacillus Bartonella henselae. The most common course of the disease includes regional lymphadenitis and skin papule at the entrance site of the infection. We report a case of a female, 22 years of age, with cat scratch disease. Clinically we observed the typical skin papule at the entrance site of the infection with severe ...

The feasibility of using dual bias metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) detectors with the new hemispherical brass build up cap for in vivo dose measurements in Prostate IMRT treatments was investigated and achieved. A general formalism with various correction factors taken into account to predict Dmax entrance skin dose for the IMRT fields with MOSFETS was developed and ...

Materials and methods: Mice: C3H/HeMsNrsf female mice aged 4 months old were used for this study. The animals were produced and maintained in specific pathogen-free (SPF) facilities. Irradiation: The mice right hind legs received daily fractionated irradiation ranged from single to six fractions. Carbon ions (C) were accelerated by the HIMAC synchrotron to 290 MeV/u. Irradiation was conducted u...

Introduction: In recent years, the number of complex coronary angiography (CA) is increasing rapidly. These procedures have a significant contribution to medical exposure to the general population. Exposure of patients to high doses of x-rays could cause deterministic effects on the skin. Therefore, the assessment of radiation doses of patients is of great importance. ...