Radiation exposure during scoliosis screening radiography
Screening programs to detect scoliosis in the adolescent population are active in most communities. Two percent of children screened will be referred for treatment or observation. Increasing concern has been voiced regarding the amount of the potential effects of the radiation administered in such screening programs. Radiation dosage was directly measured on 19 children participating in an established school scoliosis screening program, using lithium fluoride thermoluminescence dosimeters. The mean gonadal doses are measured to be 19 mrem in males and estimated at a maximum 95 mrem in females. The mean entrance skin dose was 174 mrem. A lack of uniformity in the radiographic techniques employed by individual technician was identified. The measured doses were within established acceptable limits and are comparable or below the average dose of 100 mrem received annually by the general public from the environment.
- Research Organization:
- Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Irvine
- OSTI ID:
- 5299794
- Journal Information:
- Spine (Hagerstown, Md.); (United States), Vol. 6:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
RADIATION HAZARDS
SKELETAL DISEASES
DIAGNOSIS
VERTEBRAE
SCINTISCANNING
CHILDREN
GONADS
PATIENTS
PEDIATRICS
PUBLIC HEALTH
RADIATION DOSES
SIDE EFFECTS
THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY
AGE GROUPS
BODY
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DOSES
DOSIMETRY
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
MEDICINE
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ORGANS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOLOGY
SKELETON
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