| Zang Guixia,Yan Yuchun,Xu Shucong,et al.Optimization of exposure parameters for chest digital radiography in infants and young children[J].Chinese Journal of Radiological Medicine and Protection,2017,37(6):476-480 |
| Optimization of exposure parameters for chest digital radiography in infants and young children |
| Received:February 24, 2017 |
| DOI：10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-5098.2017.06.015 |
| KeyWords:Infants and young children Digital radiography Exposure parameter Entrance surface dose Aluminum step-wedge |
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| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | Zang Guixia | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | | | Yan Yuchun | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | | | Xu Shucong | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | | | Yuan Xinyu | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | xinyu_y@sina.com | | Ren Yuwang | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | | | Zhao Yan | Department of Radiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, 100020 Beijing, China | |
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| Abstract:: |
| Objective To optimize the exposure parameters and reduce the irradiation dose level in infants and young children during digital radiography (DR) chest radiography under the premise of satisfied image quality. Methods The thoracic thickness of 100 patients were measured.Determined the aluminum equivalent of the thoraxes of the infants and young children by comparing the grayscale value and the aluminum step wedge.Another 100 infants and young children of experimental exposure were performed with the aluminum step wedge as a phantom,under AEC control,kV was the only variant to explore the optimal exposure parameters with dose monitor simultaneously.At last,clinical validation was performed.Images quality was compared with χ2 test.The radiation dose of two groups was compared with t test. Results The maximum,minimum,average thoracic thickness and their correspondent aluminum equivalent were 13.5 and 2.3 cm,8.0 and 1.4 cm,(10.6±1.3) and 2.0 cm,respectively.The average thoracic thickness of experimental group was (10.1±2.2) cm.The range of entrance surface dose was 0.068-0.056 mGy while the tube voltage range was 55-65 kV.The exposure index range was 0.60-0.74.The visual inspection of aluminum step wedge was from grades 8 to 11 with satisfying image quality at lower radiation.The infant chest X-ray photography exposure parameters formula have been optimized,that was kV=thoracic thickness (cm)×2+38(constant),mAs (0.8-1.0) with SID=100 cm,without filter grid.Compare to the conventional parameters,the image quality of new method had no significant differences (P>0.05).The actual average entrance surface dose was (0.048±0.007) mGy,lower than AEC group (0.066±0.008) mGy.The difference was statistically significant (t=16.781,P<0.001). Conclusions The optimized formula kV=thoracic thickness (cm)×2+38(constant),mAs (0.8-1.0) with SID=100 cm was credible for lowering the radiation exposure with good image quality for clinical diagnosis. |
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