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Assessment of Effective Dose from Diagnostic X-ray Examinations of Adult  

Kim, Woo-Ran (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Choon-Sik (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
Lee, Jai-Ki (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.27, no.3, 2002 , pp. 155-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
Methodology to evaluate the effective doses to adults undergoing various diagnostic x-ray examinations were established by Monte Carlo simulation of the x-ray examinations. Anthropomorphic mathematical phantoms, the MIRD5 male phantom and the ORNL female phantom, were used as the target body and x-ray spectra were produced by the x-ray spectrum generation code SPEC78. The computational procedure was validated by comparing the resulting doses to the results of NRPB studies for the same diagnostic procedures. The effective doses as well as the organ doses due to chest, abdomen, head and spine examinations were calculated for x-rays incident from AP, PA, LLAT and RLAT directions. For instance, the effective doses from the most common procedures, chest PA and abdomen AP, were 0.029 mSv and 0.44 mSv, respectively. The fact that the effective dose from PA chest x-ray is far lower than the traditional value of 0.3 mSv(or 30 mrem), which results partly from the advances of technology in diagnostic radiology and partly from the differences in the dose concept employed, emphasizes necessities of intensive assessment of the patient doses in wide ranges of medical exposures. The methodology and tools established in this study can easily be applied to dose assessments for other radiology procedures; dose from CT examinations, dose to the fetus due to examinations of pregnant women, dose from pediatric radiology.
Keywords
diagnostic x-ray; effective dose; organ doses; Monte Carlo simulation; mathematical phantom;
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