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- Title
MEASURING SCATTER RADIATION IN DIAGNOSTIC X RAYS FOR RADIATION PROTECTION PURPOSES.
- Authors
Vlachos, Ioannis; Tsantilas, Xenophon; Kalyvas, Nektarios; Delis, Harry; Kandarakis, Ioannis; Panayiotakis, George
- Abstract
During the last decades, radiation protection and dosimetry in medical X-ray imaging practice has been extensively studied. The purpose of this study was to measure secondary radiation in a conventional radiographic room, in terms of ambient dose rate equivalent H*(10) and its dependence on the radiographic exposure parameters such as X-ray tube voltage, tube current and distance. With some exceptions, the results indicated that the scattered radiation was uniform in the space around the water cylindrical phantom. The results also showed that the tube voltage and filtration affect the dose rate due to the scatter radiation. Finally, the scattered X-ray energy distribution was experimentally calculated.
- Subjects
RADIATION protection; MEDICAL digital radiography; X-ray scattering; X-ray equipment; INCIDENT radiation intensity
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2015, Vol 165, Issue 1-4, p382
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncv093