Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

Radiation Doses for Some Routine X�ray Examinations

Nadia Alatta, Omaima Alraiah, Ikhlas Abdelaziz, Duha Abdu. , Asma Elamin, Islam Elsanousi

Abstract :

 This study was conducted in 3 hospitals in Khartoum state to estimate values of entrance surface dose (ESD) and effective dose (ED) to sample of 140 adults‘ patients whose ages ranged between 23 and 60 years underwent routine x–ray examinations.

The aim of this study was to find the values of ESD and ED and to compare these values with for diagnostic reference level.

Dosecal software was used to calculate these values by entering the exposure factors KV and mAs and the output of the machine and information about the patient like age and weight.

Variation was found in values of ESD and ED from hospital to another, these variations were due to difference in settings of the exposure factors to each patient, also to the differences in machine outputs.

By compå these values with reference level for diagnostic, it was found that the values of ESD in all hospitals were lower than international reference levels.

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Nadia Alatta, Omaima Alraiah, Ikhlas Abdelaziz, Duha Abdu., Asma Elamin, Islam Elsanousi, Radiation Doses for Some Routine X�ray Examinations, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾2 | February‾2017

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