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Why are there needs to develop standards for measuring and limiting radiation exposure?

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  • Awareness of potential harmful effects of ionizing radiation
  • Desire of the medical community to reduce radiation exposure
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How did Roentgen make his discovery?

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through use of a Crookes tube, he coated a piece of paper with barium and it was illuminated

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What are somatic injuries?

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Injuries to the body including radiodermatitis and skin cancer

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What were some results of excessive occupational radiation exposure for early pioneers?

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  • Radiodermatitis
  • Cancer
  • Blood disorders (aplastic anemia and leukemia)
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What is radiodermatitis?

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Lesions on fingers induced by ionizing radiation

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What is skin erythema dose?

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The dose which causes reddening of the skin as the upper limit

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Why was skin erythema dose determined to be inefficient?

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It was not reliable because of the varying levels in which people developed erythema

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What were qualities needed in a new unit?

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It needed to be based on some measurable effect produced by radiation, like ionization of atoms or energy absorbed in the irradiated object

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When was the roentgen accepted as a unit of exposure?

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1928 at the second internation congress of radiology

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What are the early tissue reactions of ionizing radiation?

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  • Nausea
  • Fatigue
  • Diffuse redness of the skin
  • loss of hair
  • Intestinal disorders
  • Fever
  • Blood disorders
  • Shedding of the outer layer of skin
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What are the late tissue reactions of ionizing radiation?

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  • Cataract formation
  • Fibrosis
  • Organ atrophy
  • loss of parenchymal cells
  • Reduced infertility
  • Sterility
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What are Stochastic effects of ionizing radiation?

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  • Cancer
  • Genetic (hereditary) effects
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What is tolerance dose?

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Radiation dose to which occupationally exposed persons could be subjected to without harmful effects

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What happened in the Radiology Field in 1934?

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Tolerance dose of 0.2 R per day because the standard recommended dose

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What happened in the Radiology Field in 1936?

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Tolerance dose was reduced to 0.1 R per day

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Why was a replacement for tolerance dose needed?

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Scientists began to recognize later deterministic somatic effects and late stochastic effects on people

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When was the roentgen accepted as the internationally accepted unit of exposure?

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1937

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How were dose limits calculated in the 1970s?

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They were calculated and established to ensure that risk from radiation exposure acquired on the job did not exceed risks encountered in safe occupations

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What happened in the Radiology Field in 1980?

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ICRU adapted SI units for use with Radiation

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What are the traditional non-metric units of radiation?

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  • Exposure (X) - measured in R
  • Absorbed dose (D) - measured in Rad
  • Equivalent dose (EqD) - measured in REM
  • Effective dose (EfD) - measured in REM
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What is Exposure?

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The total electrical charge (All + or all -) per unit mass that x-ray photons up to 3 million eV generated in dry, standard temp/pressure

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How can Exposure (X) be defined further?

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It is a radiation quantity, that expresses the concentration of radiation delivered to a specific area

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What information must be obtained about an x-ray beam?

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The amount of ionization the beam produces in a known mass of air

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How is the measurement of beam ionization obtained?

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In an accredited calibration laboratory using standard, or free-air ionization chamber

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How does an ionization chamber work to measure radiation exposure by the amount of ionization an x-ray beam produces?
The chamber consists of a box with a known quantity of air, two oppositely charged metal plates and an electrometer, which measures the amount of charge collected on a positively charged plate
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What is Coulomb (C)?
The basic unit of electrical charge
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What do Coulombs represent?
The quantity of electrical charge flowing past a point in a circuit in 1 second when an electrical current of 1 ampere is used
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What is ampere?
The SI unit of electrical current
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What is C/kg used for?
X-ray equipment calibration and to calibrate radiation survey equipment
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What is air kerma?
The SI quantity used to express how energy is transferred from a beam of radiation to a material such as patient skin
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Why is air kerma important?
It denotes a calculation of radiation intensity in air
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What can air kerma be used for?
To express x-ray tube output and inputs to the image receptor
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What are the acronyms for kerma?
- Kinetic energy released in matter - Kinetic energy release in material - Kinetic energy released per unit Mass
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What is air kerma expressed in?
Joule per kilogram (J/kg)
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What else can air kerma be expressed in?
j/kg and may be stated in Gray
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What is Gy(a)/?
Used to indicated kinetic radiation energy deposited or absorbed in a mass of air
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What is Gy (t)?
Used to indicated kinetic radiation energy deposited or absorbed in a mass of tissue
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What is Dose Area Product? (DAP)
The sum total of air kerma over the exposed areas of the patient’s surface
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What is DAP usually specified in?
Units of mGY-cm^2
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What is absorbed dose?
The amount of energy per unit mass absorbed by an irradiated object
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What is absorbed dose responsible for?
Any biologic damage resulting from exposure of the tissues to radiation
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What does absorbed dose depend on?
- atomic number of the tissue comprising the structure - Mass density of the tissue - energy of the incident photon
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What is the SI unit of absorbed dose?
Gy
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What can units of absorbed dose be used to measure?
The energy deposited by any form of radiation
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What are the subunits used to indicated absorbed dose values?
-centigray (cGy) - 1/100 - milligray (mGy) - 1/1000 - micorgray (uGy) 1/1,000,000
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What is the subunit conversion of Rad to centigray?
Number of rad / 1 = Number of cGy
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What is surface integral dose? (SID)
The total amount of radiant energy transferred by ionizing radiation to the body during exposure
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What is the equivalent SI unit for SID?
Gy-m^2
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What is quality factor?
(Q) is an adjustment multiplier that is employed in the calculation of dose equivalence to detail the specific ability of a dose of any kind of ionizing radiation to cause biologic damage.
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Which types of ionizing radiation have a quality factor of 1?
X-ray photons Beta particles Gamma photons High-energy external photons
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Which types of ionizing radiation have a quality factor of 5?
Thermal neutrons
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Which types of ionizing radiation have a quality factor of 20?
Fast neutrons Low-energy internal photons Alpha particles Mult. Charged particles of unknown energy
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What is equivalent dose? (EqD)
The product of the average absorbed dose (D) in a tissue and its associated Wr (weighing factor) chose for that type
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What is the formula for EqD?
EqD = D x Wr and Sv = Gy X Wr
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What is Eqd expressed in?
SV or mSv
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What is Radiation Weighing Factor (Wr)?
A dimensionless factor used for radiation protection purposes to account for differences in biologic impact amongst various types of ionizing radiation
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Which types of radiation type/energy ranges have a Wr of 1?
x-ray and gamma ray photons and electrons (Every energy)
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Which types of radiation type/energy ranges have a Wr of 2?
Protons
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Which types of radiation type/energy ranges have a Wr of 5?
- Neutrons, energy <10 keV - >20 MeV
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Which types of radiation type/energy ranges have a Wr of 10?
- 10 keV-100keV - >2 MeV-20MeV
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Which types of radiation type/energy ranges have a Wr of 20?
- >100 keV - 2 MeV - Alpha particles
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What is effective dose? (EfD)
A measure of the overall risk of exposure to humans from ionizing radiation
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What is the formula for EfD?
EfD = D x Wr x Wt
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What are tissue weighing factors? (Wt)
A value that denotes the percentage of the summed stochastic risk stemming from irradiation of tissue to the all-inclusive risk
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What is linear energy transfer? (LET)
The amount of energy transferred on averaged by incident radiation to an object per unit length of track through the object
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What is LET expressed in?
kiloelectron volts per micrometer
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What is the general rule of LET?
Radiation with higher LET transfer a large amount of energy into a small area and can do more biologic damage
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What are the typical values for absorbed dose to skin for AP lumbar spine exam?
6.4 mGy
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What are the typical values for absorbed dose to bone marrow for AP lumbar spine exam?
0.6 mGy
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What are the typical values for absorbed dose to a fetus for AP lumbar spine exam?
3.5 mGy
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What are the typical values for equivalent dose to a fetus for AP lumbar spine exam?
3.5 mSv
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What are the typical values for effective dose for AP lumbar spine exam?
3.3 mSv
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What is Collective EfD used to describe in radiation protection?
internal and external dose measurements
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What is the quantity of Collective EfD used to describe?
Radiation exposure of a population or a group from low doses of different sources of ionizing radiation
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What is the radiation unit for Collective EfD?
Person-sievert
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How is collective eFd calculated?
Total persons X Avg effective dose
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What is total effective dose equivalent?
The sum of effective dose equivalent from external radiation and quantity called committed effective dose equivalent from internal radiation sources
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What is TEDE?
Takes into account all possible sources of radiation exposure and is a useful dose monitor for occupational exposed personnel

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