A Survey on Medical Radiation Dose by the Radiographic Conditions of Chest

흉부 X선촬영 조건에 따르는 의료피폭에 관한 조사연구

  • Huh, Joon (Dept. of Radiotechnology, Junior College of Allied Health Sciences, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Sun-Soo (Dept. of Radiotechnology, Shin Gu Junior College) ;
  • Park, Jun-Chul (Dept. of Radiotechnology, In San Junior College)
  • 허준 (고려대학교 보건전문대학 방사선과) ;
  • 김성수 (신구전문대학 방사선과) ;
  • 박준철 (인산전문대학 방사선과)
  • Published : 1992.05.30

Abstract

It is a matter of common knowledge that madical radiation is most accented for of radiation is doses applied to the whole of people, and of them the radation dose by radiography diagnosis is mainly prevalent. In applying X-rays to a certain man for radiography diagnosis a radiologyist will have to have an absolute sense of mission concerning the reduction and prevention of the patient's radiation dose as the radiologyist obligation. Accordingly, the radiography conditions of the patient's chest employed 197 medical facilites were surveyed and skin dose was computated by the IPH Bit system and examined. As a result, it was shown that the average skin dose was $288\;{\mu}Sv$, its minimum value was $1600\;{\mu}Sv$, which was over 32 times its minimum value. This shows that the appropriate radiography method has not been applied at applying X-ray to the patient. It comes from the performance of X-ray equipment, the choice of auxiliary equipment materials etc. But the most important thing is to master the appropriate radiography condition, and therefore this point will have to be kept in mind.

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