Open AccessA Monte Carlo study on quantifying the amount of dose reduction by shielding the superficial organs of an Iranian 11-year-old boy
Author(s) -
Parisa Akhlaghi,
Elie Hoseinian-Azghadi,
Seyyed Hashem Miri Hakimabad,
Laleh Rafat-Motavalli
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/0971-6203.195189
Subject(s) - imaging phantom , electromagnetic shielding , monte carlo method , reduction (mathematics) , nuclear medicine , shield , computed tomography , range (aeronautics) , shields , image quality , materials science , shielding effect , biomedical engineering , medicine , radiology , computer science , mathematics , geology , image (mathematics) , statistics , geometry , artificial intelligence , petrology , composite material
A method for minimizing organ dose during computed tomography examinations is the use of shielding to protect superficial organs. There are some scientific reports that usage of shielding technique reduces the surface dose to patients with no appreciable loss in diagnostic quality. Therefore, in this Monte Carlo study based on the phantom of a 11-year-old Iranian boy, the effect of using an optimized shield on dose reduction to body organs was quantified. Based on the impact of shield on image quality, lead shields with thicknesses of 0.2 and 0.4 mm were considered for organs exposed directly and indirectly in the scan range, respectively. The results showed that there is 50%-62% reduction in amounts of dose for organs located fully or partly in the scan range at different tube voltages and modeling the true location of all organs in human anatomy, especially the ones located at the border of the scan, range affects the results up to 49%.