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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2012.6.6.441

Evaluation of Effectiveness of New Design Lead Apron during Pregnant X-ray Chest P-A  

Kim, Hyeonggyun (Department of Intelligent Mechanical Engineering, Graduate school of Kumoh of National institute of technology)
Kwon, Soonmu (Department of Radiological Science, The Graduate School of Catholic University of Daegu)
Jung, Hongmoon (Department of Radiological Science, Daegu Health College)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.6, no.6, 2012 , pp. 441-445 More about this Journal
Abstract
X-ray Chest P-A is very important and basic diagnosis examination for pregnant women. For a pregnancy period pregnant women should be treated very carefully not to be exposed to any radiation which might cause harmful damage to women and babies as well. Lead apron is one of the effective methods to protect pregnant women from the X-ray radiation. However, it is difficult to obtain the accurate position of pregnant women during X-ray Chest P-A since conventional lead apron method forces pregnant women to hold the apron by themselves only to make pregnant women very uncomfortable and hard to maintain accurate position during radiation. As a consequence, it is common to get low quality images of X-ray Chest P-A due to the overlap of apex of lung and scapular. In order to fix this problem, we made new design lead apron that allowed pregnant women to be more comfortable to maintain accurate position during X-ray Chest P-A position. Finally, with this new design lead apron, it was possible to get the best optimized images of X-ray Chest P-A of pregnant women by minimizing overlapping apex of lung and scapular.
Keywords
New design lead apron; Conventional lead apron; Pregnant lead apron;
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