The Study on Scattered Ray by C-arm in Operation Room

수술실 내 C-arm 장치의 산란선 분포에 대한 연구

  • Park, Seung-Hyun (Korea Institute of Medical Divice Assessment) ;
  • Park, Joo-Mi (Department of Radiology, Seoul Veterans Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Soo (Department of Radiological Technology, Shingu University)
  • 박성현 (한국 의료기기 평가 연구원) ;
  • 박주미 (서울보훈병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 김현수 (신구대학교 방사선과)
  • Received : 2011.01.18
  • Accepted : 2011.03.07
  • Published : 2011.03.31

Abstract

A radiation imaging system used in a surgery room is mainly using C-arm which is purposed to fluoroscope. C-arm is often use to watch an operation's accuracy and progress, but not only being bombed to this first beam but also affected to this scattered beam, so now we are look for the way to reduce bombed amount of doctor, nurses and radiological technologists. We measured the exposure dose in $0^{\circ}$ spot according to the distance to find out frequency distribution of scattered ray in an operation room and found the spot which has the same exposure dose from $30^{\circ}$ distance of all directions and wrote isodose curve. We analyzed the data and found out the sudden reduction of scattered ray according to the long direction also found out that scattered ray was not related to the directions. Operators must recognize the reduction of exposure dose. Because reducing scattered ray from all directions in an operation room is really difficult. So every operators must use shelters to reduce the exposure dose and notice the safety.

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