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Estimate of worker and patient exposures and quality control in hysterosalpingography exams; Estimativa da exposicao de pacientes e trabalhadores e controle de qualidade em exames de histerossalpingografia

Abstract

Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a relatively frequent radiological procedure, which is used to access and study the uterine cavity and the tubary permeability. The estimate of the radiation doses received by the patients, and of the associated risks, has become of great interest in recent years. The importance in evaluating the received doses becomes even higher when the gonads region is irradiated; as in the case of hysterosalpingography, where the patients are relatively young, existing a high probability of future pregnancy. In HSG procedure the physician stays beside the patient, being also exposed. The purpose of this study was to analyze, during HSG procedures, the exposition of patients, measuring the kerma-area (P{sub K,A}) product by using an ionization chamber of big area, to evaluate the doses received by the radiologist using thermoluminescent dosemeters and to evaluate the quality of image by means of qualitative methods. The results gotten during the accompaniment of 86 examinations had been the following ones: the average P{sub K,A} was 706 {+-} 388 cGy.cm{sup 2}, to an average exposition time of 2 {+-} 1 minutes. In order to optimize the exposure of patients and workers, the time of scopy and the number of images should be reduced,  More>>
Publication Date:
Jun 15, 2006
Product Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Report Number:
INIS-BR-4498
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Diss. (M.Sc.); 53 refs., 61 figs., 15 tabs
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ANIMAL TISSUES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGY; DEPTH DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IRRADIATION; ORGANS; PERSONNEL DOSIMETRY; PREGNANCY; RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSEMETERS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS
OSTI ID:
21013976
Research Organizations:
Instituto de Radioprotecao e Dosimetria (IRD/CNEN-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Radioprotecao e Dosimetria
Country of Origin:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: BR08V1068036334
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form
Submitting Site:
BRN
Size:
105 pages
Announcement Date:
Apr 28, 2008

Citation Formats

Rodrigues, Barbara Beatriz Dias. Estimate of worker and patient exposures and quality control in hysterosalpingography exams; Estimativa da exposicao de pacientes e trabalhadores e controle de qualidade em exames de histerossalpingografia. Brazil: N. p., 2006. Web.
Rodrigues, Barbara Beatriz Dias. Estimate of worker and patient exposures and quality control in hysterosalpingography exams; Estimativa da exposicao de pacientes e trabalhadores e controle de qualidade em exames de histerossalpingografia. Brazil.
Rodrigues, Barbara Beatriz Dias. 2006. "Estimate of worker and patient exposures and quality control in hysterosalpingography exams; Estimativa da exposicao de pacientes e trabalhadores e controle de qualidade em exames de histerossalpingografia." Brazil.
@misc{etde_21013976,
title = {Estimate of worker and patient exposures and quality control in hysterosalpingography exams; Estimativa da exposicao de pacientes e trabalhadores e controle de qualidade em exames de histerossalpingografia}
author = {Rodrigues, Barbara Beatriz Dias}
abstractNote = {Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a relatively frequent radiological procedure, which is used to access and study the uterine cavity and the tubary permeability. The estimate of the radiation doses received by the patients, and of the associated risks, has become of great interest in recent years. The importance in evaluating the received doses becomes even higher when the gonads region is irradiated; as in the case of hysterosalpingography, where the patients are relatively young, existing a high probability of future pregnancy. In HSG procedure the physician stays beside the patient, being also exposed. The purpose of this study was to analyze, during HSG procedures, the exposition of patients, measuring the kerma-area (P{sub K,A}) product by using an ionization chamber of big area, to evaluate the doses received by the radiologist using thermoluminescent dosemeters and to evaluate the quality of image by means of qualitative methods. The results gotten during the accompaniment of 86 examinations had been the following ones: the average P{sub K,A} was 706 {+-} 388 cGy.cm{sup 2}, to an average exposition time of 2 {+-} 1 minutes. In order to optimize the exposure of patients and workers, the time of scopy and the number of images should be reduced, whenever it is possible. Due to the significant values of equivalent dose received by the lens, the use of plumbiferous eyeglasses is recommended. (author)}
place = {Brazil}
year = {2006}
month = {Jun}
}