文章基本信息

标题：Establishment of local diagnostic reference levels for typical radiography examinations in the west region of Croatia
本地全文：下载
作者：Šegota, Doris ; Diklić, Ana ; Jurković, Slaven 等
期刊名称：Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection
印刷版ISSN：1451-3994
出版年度：2019
卷号：34
期号：1
页码：102-106
DOI：10.2298/NTRP180831015S
出版社：VINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences
摘要：Majority of health institutions in Croatia do not have medical physicists in diagnostic radiology. Regarding this, in the west region of Croatia collaboration between public health institution and University Hospital Rijeka was initiated in 2015. Quality Assurance program was implemented in these public health institutions during 2015 and 2016 and the next step was to assess patient doses for the most frequent X-ray examinations. This included five public health institutions: 1 university hospital, 1 general hospital, 1 special hospital, 2 public health institutions with 13 facilities. The aim of this study was to carry out assessment of patient doses and to establish local diagnostic reference levels of entrance surface air kerma for every institution for six most frequent X-ray examinations. Also, local diagnostic reference levels for the whole west region of Croatia were established and compared with the national diagnostic reference levels and latest published data. Median entrance surface air kerma values for thorax PA, thorax LAT, cervical spine AP, thoracic spine AP, lumbar spine AP, pelvis AP and sinuses are 0.14 mGy, 0.50 mGy, 0.52 mGy, 1.50 mGy, 2.52 mGy, 2.03 mGy, and 1.03 mGy, respectively. Diagnostic reference levels proposed for our region were comparable with other studies.
关键词：diagnostic reference level; radiography; X-ray