Estimation of radiation dosage for traumatic patients in majmaah area, saudi arabia
Abstract
Radiation Exposure is the main hazard in medical x-rays investigations.The objective of this work was to study the attended radiation dose measured in the Majmaah area.Furthermore, to measure the radiation dose level for different examinations in conventional x-rays.Thus, conventional x-rays examination of traumatic patients.A sample of 700 patients was evaluated using at King Khaled Hospital-Majmaah.The average and range of exposure parameters were 73.5 ± 9.1 (65.9 -124.9)KVp and 2.7 ± 0.71 (0.2 -9.6) mAs for X-ray exposure factors, respectively.The measured Entrance Surface Air Kerma (ESAK) dose for chest (PA), skull ((AP) and (LAT.)),Lumbosacral ((AP) and (LAT.))In addition, knee joints ((AP) and (LAT.)) were 0.20 + 0.07 with range of (0.13-0.37) mGy, (0.86 ± 0.01) with range of (0.09 -2.92) mGy and 0.09 + 0.02 with range of (0.04 -0.17) mGy, (0.10 ± 0.02 with range of (0.04 -0.17) mGy and 0.1 + 0.02 with range of (0.03 -0.16) mGy and 0.86 ± 0.01 with range of (0.09 -2.92) mGy respectively.The study was concluded that most of the procedures were done in King Khalid Hospital-Majmaah were in the permissible limits.In dose measurement techniques, the machine and patient-related factors must be fixed for accurate results.
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