The aim of this study is to determination of local diagnostic reference levels for radiodiagnostic examination in the General Teaching Hospital in Prague. Local diagnostic reference levels are used for an evaluation of radiation load which patients receive during medical examinations of specific parts of the human body. The evaluation can be on the level of a hospital and its department or on the level of concrete X-ray machine. The theoretical part describes a ionizing radiation, including its interaction with matter, creating, formation of radiodiagnostic image, legislation during optimization of radiodiagnostic examination, radiological protection and determination of values for radiation dose. The practical part describes the determination of local diagnostic reference levels with the help of entrance surface kerma and the median dose in the mammary gland. Both of these variables are relevant for determination of the risk of adverse effects of ionizing radiation which is applied during radiographic examination. Data for this study was collected with the help of operating diaries and PACS system. It has been rated twenty-six kinds of examinations from twelve mobile and nine stationary (including two mammographs) X-ray machines. All resulting values were statistically processed and compared with...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:313974 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Drobílková, Daniela |
| Contributors | Daneš, Jan, Vrána, Jiří |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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