- X선 진단시 피폭선량을 반으로 줄이기 위한 Cu Filter의 두께
- The thickness of Cu Filter to reduce 1/2 of the patient dose
- ㆍ 저자명
- 김정민,김성철,Kim. Jung-Min,Kim. Sung-Chul
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 대한방사선기술학회지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2001년|24권 1호|pp.17-22 (6 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 대한방사선과학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Medical X-ray examination are increased double for the last $6{sim}8$ years. Therefore a patient exposure dose should be decrease half every 7 years. We made an experiment on copper filter thickness to decrease a patient exposure dose up to half and compared to the Image quality by MTF. The results as follow 1. A thin region like extremities needs a thicker Cu filter as compared a thick region. 2. 1/2 reduction filter must be thicker when kVp Increase. 3. Exposure factor should be increas when using 1/2 reduction filter ; extremity is 4.0 times, chest 2.9 times, skull 1.62 times, and abdomen 1.58 times 4. The MTF of using 1/2 reduction filter is lower than without filter. But no difference of visual image. 5. 1/2 reduction filter compared with double speed screen showed almost same image quality.