A dose index as a tool to estimate paediatric patient doses in digital projection radiography.

Abstract:

:Radiation exposure during childhood is estimated to have a lifetime risk up to seven times greater than exposures at adult age. Therefore, paediatric patient dose monitoring is a major concern in radiology. The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of a dose index, displayed at the digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) header of the images, as a dosimetric quantity to estimate the entrance surface dose (ESD) for each procedure. It was carried out over a sample of 156 paediatric patients who underwent a chest examination. National Radiation Protection Board Report 318 model was used to categorise patients by age and to estimate their thickness. Corrected dose index values were compared with calculated ESD, estimated from tube output and radiographic technique. The deviation between both values remained within 2% for every age group, except for patients up to 1 y. Therefore, the index could be used to estimate ESD, allowing to manage greater patient dose databases.

journal_name

Radiat Prot Dosimetry

authors

Garcia Castañon P,España Lopez ML,Fernandez Bedoya V,Bermudez Luna R,Rodriguez Martin G

doi

10.1093/rpd/ncr313

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-05-01 00:00:00

pages

417-23

issue

4

eissn

0144-8420

issn

1742-3406

pii

ncr313

journal_volume

149

pub_type

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