Title: Establishment of diagnostic reference level of abdominopelvic CT procedure of university hospital center Mohammed VI, Oujda
Abstract:Background: Everyday, physicians daily use different X- ray's technologies to diagnose cancer in order to save thousands of lives. The use of CT in medical diagnosis, administers radiation doses to pa...Background: Everyday, physicians daily use different X- ray's technologies to diagnose cancer in order to save thousands of lives. The use of CT in medical diagnosis, administers radiation doses to patients that are higher than those from other radiological procedures. It has been estimated that Computed Tomography examinations make up around 20% of radiologic procedures and contribute by approximately 80% to the radiation medical exposure doses. Purpose: The goal of this study is to estimate the doses delivered during abdominopelvic Computed Tomography (CT) procedures in order to establish local diagnostic reference level (DRL) of University Hospital Center Mohamed VI of Oujda. Materials and methods: All CT examinations are performed with a scanner GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) Optima CT 540. A total of 30 patients were examined in emergency radiology department. The data was collected from Abdomen- pelvic examinations. For each examination, CT acquisition parameters were reported, including number of series, use of contrast medium, tube kV, tube current and rotation time, slice thickness, the displayed CT dose index (CTDIvol) and the Dose Length Product (DLP). Effective dose and DRL were estimated using the International Commission on Radiological Protection conversion factors (ICRP 2007).Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-10-02
Language: en
Type: article
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