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Efficacy of breast shielding during head computed tomography examination Cover

Efficacy of breast shielding during head computed tomography examination

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Open Access
|Aug 2020

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Acquisition parameters

HospitalAB
Pitch0.550.656
Rotation time (s)10.6
kV120120
mA480200
Figure 1

Presentation of the shielding position used in the study.

Table 2

Mean measured skin dose to the breasts in both investigated hospitals

Hospital AHospital B
unshieldedshieldedunshieldedshielded
Mean skin dose to breast (μGy)338.2 ± 43.764.3 ± 18.8253.1 ± 35.165.3 ± 16.9
Dose reduction81%74%
Figure 2

Mean skin dose to breast in both hospitals with and without the shielding.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2020-0044 | Journal eISSN: 1581-3207 | Journal ISSN: 1318-2099
Language: English
Page range: 116 - 120
Submitted on: May 20, 2020
Accepted on: Jun 16, 2020
Published on: Aug 1, 2020
Published by: Association of Radiology and Oncology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2020 Nika Zalokar, Nejc Mekis, published by Association of Radiology and Oncology
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.