ArticleThe British journal of radiology2016
Radiation doses received in the United Kingdom breast screening programme in 2010 to 2012.
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- Radiation doses received in the UK breast screening programmes 2019-2023.The British journal of radiology · 2024Article
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- The Effects of Ionising and Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation on Extracellular Matrix Proteins.Cells · 2021Review
- The Effect of Breast Size and Density in Turkish Women on Radiation Dose in Full-Field Digital Mammography.European journal of breast health · 2021Article
- European trends in radiology: investigating factors affecting the number of examinations and the effective dose.La Radiologia medica · 2020Review
- Final Results of the Prospective FH02 Mammographic Surveillance Study of Women Aged 35-39 at Increased Familial Risk of Breast Cancer.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
- Improvements of an objective model of compressed breasts undergoing mammography: Generation and characterization of breast shapes.Medical physics · 2017Article
- Compression forces used in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program.The British journal of radiology · 2017Article
- Radiation risk of breast screening in England with digital mammography.The British journal of radiology · 2016Article
- Dosimetry in x-ray-based breast imaging.Physics in medicine and biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo review the radiation doses received by women attending the UK breast-screening programme between 2010 and 2012. To compare doses with previous years and to quantify the impact on dose of changing from analogue to digital imaging and to analyse doses by type of imaging system.
methodsMeasurements of doses to samples of about 50-100 women attending for screening were collected across the whole of the UK breast-screening programme.
resultsData were collected for 87,122 exposures, using 449 X-ray sets, for 25,408 women. The average mean glandular dose (MGD) was 1.79 mGy for mediolateral oblique images and 1.58 mGy for craniocaudal images. The average MGD per two-view examination was 4.01 mGy for film-screen imaging and 3.03 mGy for direct digital radiography (DR) and 4.69 mGy for computed radiography.
conclusionThe MGD to women attending breast screening has been reduced on average by about 25% where DR systems have replaced film-screen systems. The dose reduction was greatest for breasts with the largest compressed thickness. There are large variations in dose between the different models of DR system provided by different manufacturers. There should be further work to ensure that all DR systems are operated at the optimal dose level to ensure the best cancer detection while balancing the detriment caused by using radiation. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: Changes in the radiation dose in breast screening over time have been determined. Specifically, the impact on radiation dose of introducing different types of DR and computed radiography system into breast screening has been quantified.
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