ESTIMATION OF EFFECTIVE DOSE OF DENTAL X-RAY DEVICES

Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Wang QiangLin Lin

Abstract

This study aims to estimate the effective doses of dental X-ray devices under common scanning protocols. After putting TLDs in the Alderson Radiation Therapy Phantom, we exposed the phantom under common scanning protocols of three dental X-ray devices, namely CBCT, dental panoramic machine and intraoral round cone device. Then effective doses were calculated using the measured absorbed doses of organs and tissues. Tissue weighting factors recommended by the ICRP were adopted in the calculation. Effective doses under common scanning protocols of three Dental X-ray devices were obtained. The effective dose of dental CT was 0.20 mSv, and that of dental panoramic machine and intraoral radiography were 0.013 and 0.0050 mSv, respectively. The tissue absorbed doses of dental CT scan were 0.63 mGy of brain, 7.7 mGy of salivary glands, 8.7 mGy of thyroid and 4.0 mGy of the lens of the eye. The tissue absorbed doses from dental panoramic machine are 0.62 mGy of salivary glands and 0.25 mGy of thyroid. And finally the tissue absorbed dose of intraoral radiography was 0.80 mGy of salivary gland. Among the three dental X-ray devices studied, dental CBCT scan can cause much higher effective dose than the other two. Brain, salivary glands, th...Continue Reading

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