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Dose reduction during CT scanning in an anthropomorphic phantom by the use of a male gonad shield.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Price, Robin Halson, Peter Sampson, Maku |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Shielding the radiosensitive gonads during X-ray exposure has been advocated for plain film radiography for many years. In the UK, gonad shields are not widely employed in routine CT scanning, possibly owing to a perceived difficulty in protecting the gonads from a multidirectional X-ray source. The increasing numbers of CT scanners in the UK, with the large doses they deliver to patients, make potential dose reduction methods an important issue. This study measures the dose reduction achievable by shielding the male gonads with a lead wrap-around protection device. The reductions in dose when shielded both from direct radiation and from indirect radiation scattered from local tissues were studied. The use of the device resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the absorbed testicular dose from both direct and scattered radiation, with no increase in the dose measured in surrounding tissues. In three clinically relevant experimental protocols where the testes were not irradiated directly, the testicular absorbed dose from indirect scatter was reduced by 77-93% of the corresponding non-shielded figure. In these three experiments, image quality was unaltered by the use of the shield. A larger dose reduction was obtained when the shield was used to protect the testes from direct irradiation. However, this was achieved at the expense of considerable image degradation from streak artefact that would effectively prevent the clinical use of the device in this setting. |
| Starting Page | 185 |
| Ending Page | 185 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://c.guionnet.free.fr/Tablier%20scanner/Documents/489.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 10505015v1 |
| Volume Number | 72 |
| Issue Number | 857 |
| Journal | The British journal of radiology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Body tissue Diagnostic radiologic examination Gonadal structure Large Morphologic artifacts Patients Phantoms, Imaging Plain x-ray Protocols documentation Shield Device Component Testis |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
