A Simple Measurement Method for Verifying the Accuracy of the Displayed Dose on an Over-couch-type X-ray Fluoroscopic System

The purpose of this study was to establish a simple measurement method to verify the accuracy of incident air kerma (Ka, r) and air kerma area product (PKA) displayed on an over-couch-type X-ray fluoroscopy system. A dosimeter was located at the patient entrance reference point, and the irradiation field size was set to 10×10 cm. A lead plate was placed on the couchtop to protect the image receptor, and the duration of fluoroscopy was set to 1 min. The Ka, r was measured with the proposed method and the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) method on three X-ray fluoroscopy units of different manufactures. The effect of backscattered X-rays from the lead plate was calculated using Monte Carlo methods. The errors of the displayed Ka, r and PKA to the measured Ka, r and PKA with our proposed method were calculated. There was no significant difference in the measured Ka, r between the proposed method and the JIS method in all units. The effect of backscattered X-ray was ≤0.5%. The errors of displayed Ka, r and PKA to those measured were in the range of 3.4 to 15.7% and -4.1 to 20.3%, respectively, which met the tolerance for accuracy of ±35% in accordance with the JIS method. We found that our proposed method was simple and that the accuracy of measured values was comparable to that of the JIS method.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:77

Enthalten in:

Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai zasshi - 77(2021), 10 vom: 02., Seite 1180-1185

Sprache:

Japanisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Noto, Kimiya [VerfasserIn]
Segawa, Keiko [VerfasserIn]
Yoshikawa, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Moribe, Riku [VerfasserIn]
Kojima, Hironori [VerfasserIn]
Matsubara, Kosuke [VerfasserIn]
Takemura, Akihiro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Air kerma area product
Incident air kerma
Journal Article
Over-couch fluoroscopy

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 22.10.2021

Date Revised 22.10.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.6009/jjrt.2021_JSRT_77.10.1180

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332111369