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The Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety journal ISSN 1024-6177 was founded in January 1956 (before December 30, 1993 it was entitled Medical Radiology, ISSN 0025-8334). In 2018, the journal received Online ISSN: 2618-9615 and was registered as an electronic online publication in Roskomnadzor on March 29, 2018. It publishes original research articles which cover questions of radiobiology, radiation medicine, radiation safety, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine and scientific reviews. In general the journal has more than 30 headings and it is of interest for specialists working in thefields of medicine¸ radiation biology, epidemiology, medical physics and technology. Since July 01, 2008 the journal has been published by State Research Center - Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency. The founder from 1956 to the present time is the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and from 2008 to the present time is the Federal Medical Biological Agency.
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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2016. Vol. 61. No. 2. P. 53-57
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLODGY
V.A. Bessonova1, P.V. Gavrilov2, A.A. Komarskiy1,3, S.R. Korzhenevskiy1, A.S. Chepusov1,3
Reduction of Patient Radiation Dose During Diagnostics with the Digital Pulsed Nanosecond X-ray Systems
1. Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch of the RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; 3. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
ABSTRACT
Purpose: Investigation of diagnostic and operational capabilities of pulsed nanosecond X-ray complex compared with commercial X-ray systems based on DC-tubes using digital flat panel detectors.
Material and methods: 3 X-ray systems are considered: pulsed X-ray source Jasen-01 with Carestream DRX-1 detector, Definium AMX 700 mobile apparatus with General Electric detector, Evolution HV complex with Canon CXDI-40EC panel detector. The analysis of these systems is based on images quality evaluation and effective dose measurement. DKS-AT 1123 detector and Unifors Xi dosimeter are used for devices radiation parameters control.
Results: Analysis of digital X-ray images shows good results of pulsed system. Snapshots taken by using this device have the same quality as one obtained with Definium AMX 700 system, and its insignificantly is worse than a typical one for Evolution HV. Using pulsed X-ray source with digital detector, we achieve up to 25 times dose decreasing compared with commercial systems with DC-tubes.
Conclusion: Application of pulsed X-ray sources with digital detectors allows to reduce the dose by 25 times comparing with DC-sources. This result is especially important for C-arm device exploitation. Since it operates in real-time mode, application of pulsed X-ray systems with the digital detector significantly decreases patients and medical staff dose and increases the duration of the procedures under X-ray control.
Key words: pulsed X-ray diagnostic system, reduction of radiation exposure, equivalent dose, X-ray, digital detector
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For citation: Bessonova VA, Gavrilov PV, Komarskiy AA, Korzhenevskiy SR, Chepusov AS. Reduction of Patient Radiation Dose During Diagnostics with the Digital Pulsed Nanosecond X-ray Systems. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2016;61(2):53-7. Russian.
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