RADIATION PROTECTION PURPOSES IN DIAGNOSTIC X-RAYS UNITS USING SIMPLE OR COMMON BUILDING MATERIALS

Abstract

Diagnostic and interventional radiology is an essential part of present-day medical practice. Advances in X-ray imaging technology, together with developments in digital imaging, have had a signicant impact on the practice of radiology. Although individual doses associated with conventional radiography are usually low, examinations involving computed tomography and international radiography can be signicantly higher. However, with well-designed, installed, and maintained X-ray equipment, and through the use of proper procedures by trained operators, unnecessary exposure to patients can be reduced signicantly, with no degradation in the medical information derived. In all facilities and for all equipment types, procedures must be in place in order to ensure that exposures to patients, staff and the public are kept as low as reasonably achievable. In this work, a more detailed experimental investigation of the scatter X-ray attenuation properties of common building materials such as single ceramic tile, reinforced ceramic tile, double reinforced ceramic tile, glass block, single plasterboard (or gypsum board wall), double plasterboard, was performed.