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KMID : 1151820180120030373
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
2018 Volume.12 No. 3 p.373 ~ p.379
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Dose Reduction of the Adolescent Female Breast during Scoliosis Radiography
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Jin Gye-Hwan
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate quantitative data on the difference in breast entrance surface dose with changes in focus-film distance, patient posture (anteroposterior-posteroanterior), thoracic wall thickness, rib bone thickness, lung tissue thickness, tube voltage, and high-voltage rectification method in Whole Spine Scanography, which is necessary for the treatment of scoliosis patients. Given a tube voltage of 90 kVp, kerma of 0.1 mGy, focus-film distance of 260 cm, tube voltage ripple rate of 0, filter thickness of 3.5 mm, and thickness of patient's thoracic wall of 120 mm as an X-ray exposure condition, from the simulation results using the Simulation of X-ray Spectra program to confirm the reduction effect of breast entrance surface dose according to the patient's posture (AP and PA), there was a dose reduction effect in aluminum filter thickness of 2.6 times at 3.5 mm, 25.7 times the thoracic wall thickness at 120 mm, 1.43 times higher tube voltage, and 0 to 1.14 times the tube voltage ripple rate. The total dose reduction effect was about 109 times. In order to confirm the dose reduction effect of RANDO phantom posture (AP and PA), from the results of the measurements taken under the conditions that the focus-film distance was 260 cm, the tube voltage was 90 kVp, the tube current was 270 mA, the exposure time was 0.31 sec, and the tube voltage ripple rate of X-ray generators was 0, the entrance surface dose reduction effect of the breast in the PA position was found to be 20.56 times lower than that of the AP position.
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KEYWORD
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Dose Reduction, Female Breast, Scoliosis Radiography, PA positioning
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