ArticleRadiology and oncology2013
The effect of breast shielding during lumbar spine radiography.
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- Paradigm shift in the application of patient contact shielding: a balancing act between tradition and progress.European radiology · 2026Review
- [Use of patient radiation shielding in diagnostic and interventional radiology].Radiologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- The effect of breast shielding outside the field of view on breast entrance surface dose in axial X-ray examinations: a phantom study.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2023Article
- Impact of Eye and Breast Shielding on Organ Doses During Cervical Spine Radiography: Design and Validation of MIRD Computational Phantom.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Efficacy of breast shielding during head computed tomography examination.Radiology and oncology · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of Breast and Eye Shielding During Cervical Spine Radiography: An Experimental Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Comparison of anteroposterior and posteroanterior projection in lumbar spine radiography.Radiology and oncology · 2018Article
- Beam Collimation during Lumbar Spine Radiography: A Retrospective Study.Journal of biomedical physics & engineering · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of the study was to determine the influence of lead shielding on the dose to female breasts in conventional x-ray lumbar spine imaging. The correlation between the body mass index and the dose received by the breast was also investigated. MATERIALS AND
methodsBreast surface dose was measured by thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD). In the first phase measurements of breast dose with and without shielding from lumbar spine imaging in two projections were conducted on an anthropomorphic phantom. In the second stage measurements were performed on 100 female patients, randomly divided into two groups of 50, with breast shielding only used in one group.
resultsOn average, breast exposure dose in lumbar spine imaging in both projections (anteroposterior (AP) and lateral) was found reduced by approximately 80% (p < 0,001) when shielding with 0.5 mm lead equivalent was used (from 0.45±0.25 mGy to 0.09±0.07 mGy on the right and from 0.26±0.14 mGy to 0.06±0.04 mGy on the left breast). No correlation between the body mass index (BMI) and the breast surface radiation dose was observed.
conclusionsAlthough during the lumbar spine imaging breasts receive low-dose exposure even when shielding is not used, the dose can be reduced up to 80% by breast shielding with no influence on the image quality.
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