Abstract
Patient dose evaluation is one of the quality assurance programs. Dose area product is a product of surface area of patient that exposed to radiation at the skin entrance multiplied by the radiation dose at the surface. This research focused on a dosimetry, DAP, for specific X-rays examination which is known as Intravenous Urography examination. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 145 adult patients age above 16 years examined using IVU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at two public and two private hospitals during February 2012-March 2012.
Highlights
IntroductionThis research focused on a dosimetry for specific X-rays examination which is known as Intravenous Urography (IVU) examination
Patient dose evaluation is one of the quality assurance programs (QAP)
This research focused on a dosimetry, Dose Area Product (DAP), for specific X-rays examination which is known as Intravenous Urography examination
Summary
This research focused on a dosimetry for specific X-rays examination which is known as Intravenous Urography (IVU) examination. IVU does involve a large number of radiographs. IVU is the examination of the urinary tract involving up to 20 radiographs (mean of 8.2) [1,2,3], 9.3 film on average [4]. For this reason, even if the intravenous urography frequency is only about 1.3% of the total number of examinations, its contribution to the collective dose is much greater, equal to about 11% [5,6]. Measurement of dose area product is suitable for achieving optimum degree of safety during radiological examination of patient
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