Imaging Practice and Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology : Conventional Radiography

This book offers the reader sound advice on how to perform optimal conventional pediatric radiographs and how to obtain quick and easy organ dose estimates in order to improve the optimization process in pediatric imaging. Clear guidelines are provided for minimization of the radiation exposure of children through optimization of the radiation exposure conditions, and conversion coefficients are presented for calculation of the organ doses achieved in organs and tissues during conventional pediatric radiography, taking into consideration both optimal and suboptimal radiation field settings. Previously published conversion coefficients have failed to represent the variation in radiation field settings in daily clinical routine, which has made it difficult for the pediatric radiologist to estimate the impact of the field settings on absorbed doses in organs and tissues. The aim of this book, co-written by a pediatric radiologist, a physician and physicist, and a medical radiation technologist, is to address this issue by providing, for the first time, a thorough overview of clinical radiation field settings and their implications for radiation protection. An accompanying volume is devoted to fluoroscopy. -- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Radiation Risk and Radiation Protection in Paediatric Radiology (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 3-8 The Concept of Normalized Organ Doses for Dose Reconstruction in Paediatric Radiology (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 9-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Specific Problems of Paediatric Radiology (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 13-23 Radiation Dose and Dose Reconstruction in Conventional Paediatric Radiology (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 25-44 Image Quality in Paediatric Radiography (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 45-56 Some Technical Principles of Conventional Paediatric Radiology (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 57-60 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Introduction (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 63-89 Skull (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 91-126 Chest (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 127-287 Bony Thorax (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 289-340 Thoraco-abdominal Babygram (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 341-365 Abdomen (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 367-493 Full Spine (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 495-534 Cervical Spine (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 535-585 Thoracic Spine (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 587-649 Lumbar Spine (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 651-697 Pelvis (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 699-720 Hip Joint (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 721-742 Thigh (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 743-763 Shoulder (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 765-786 Clavicle (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 787-807 Upper Arm (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 809-831 Upper Extremity (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 833-854 Hand (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 855-858 Lower Extremity (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 859-883 Foot (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 885-887 Skeletal Status (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 889-890 Front Matter ....Pages 891-891 Mathematical Phantoms (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 893-900 Normalized Organ Doses in Tables (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 901-903 Abbreviations (Michael Seidenbusch, Veronika Rösenberger, Karl Schneider)....Pages 905-905