Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Radiation physics, Paediatric, Action 5 - Performance indicators for radiation protection management, Action 4 - Dose management systems, Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs), Digital radiography, Diagnostic procedure, Dosimetric comparison
Authors:
C. Polito, V. Cannatà, L. Di Chiara, B. Cassano, T. Insero, P. Toma, A. Magistrelli, M. Longo, E. Genovese
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0087
Background/introduction
Radiographic examinations are crucial to the diagnosis and management of young patients admitted to an intensive care unit.
Due to the high radiosensitivity of infant’s tissues and their long life expectancy (compared to the one of adult patients),
the chances to develop late effects induced by radiations increase [1].
This means that the examinations they undergo must be strongly justified in that they provide benefits,
outweighing the risks.
The performance of equipment and radiographic techniques used for imaging of infants will influence the radiation dose they receive.
In this contest,
this work is aimed to the evaluation of exposure in children undergoing chest X-ray examinations.
Particularly,
the main aim is to assess the effective and the organ doses,
under the hypothesis of their correlation with the Dose-Area-Product (DAP).
In this way,
patient-specific radiation doses for a group of thoracic organs have been estimated and coefficient to convert DAP to organ and effective doses have been evaluated in order to easily correlate dosimetric to measurable quantities.