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Investigation of organ dose difference of age phantoms for medical X-ray examinations  

Park, Sang-Hyun (Hanyang University)
Lee, Choon-Sik (Innovative Technology Center for Radiation Safety)
Kim, Woo-Ran (Hanyang University)
Lee, Jai-Ki (Hanyang University)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.28, no.1, 2003 , pp. 35-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
Methodology for calculating the organ equivalent doses and the effective doses of pediatric and adult patients undergoing medical X-ray examinations were established. The MIRD-type mathematical phantoms of 4 age groups were constructed with addition of the esophagus to the same phantoms. Two typical examination procedures, chest PA and abdomen AP, were simulated for the pediatric patients as well as the adult as illustrative examples. The results confirmed that patients pick up approximate 0.03 mSv of effective dose from a single chest PA examination, and 0.4 to 1.7 mSv from an abdomen AP examination depending on the ages. For dose calculations where irradiation is made with a limited field, the details of the position, size and shape of the organs and the organ depth from the entrance surface considerably affect the resulting doses. Therefore, it is important to optimize radiation protection by control of X-ray properties and beam examination field. The calculation result, provided in this study, can be used to implement optimization for medical radiation protection.
Keywords
pediatric radiology; X-ray examination; organ equivalent dose; effective dose; MIRD-type mathematical phantom;
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