Keywords:
Radiographers, Digital radiography, Radiation safety
Authors:
N. Mekis; Ljubljana/SI
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1840
Results
43 patients based on the BMI results were in the normal weight group,
47 patients were in the overweight group and 20 patients in the obese group.
The DAP value in the overweight patients group was 75 % higher than in the group with the normal weight.
The DAP value in the group of obese patients the DAP was for 176 % higher than in the group with the normal weight (table 1).
The increase of the effective dose was 55 % and 112 % (table 2).
The average increase of the dose to organs was similar as the results of the effective dose (table 3).
Based on the Kruskal-Wallis test all the parameters had statistically significant difference (p < 10^-3).