Estimation of patient’s effective dose while they are exposed for long time fluoroscopic examination in extra corporal shockwave lithotripsy (eswl)‎

Abstract EN

The fluoroscopic examination in extra corporal shockwave lithotripsy unit in order to localizing the position of renal stones in a given patients before the destruction of renal stone, offering long time exposure to the X-ray, resulting in high patients dose.

Rad Pro software has been used to evaluate the patient effective dose.

Thirty three cases were enrolled in this project (19 male,14 female).

Different radiographic techniques (X-ray tube current and potential difference) are used representing different size of body patient, which were introduced to the software to calculate the effective doses for patient.

The results obtained are significantly high relative to the international diagnostic reference level, these results present large variations between each case that reflect the disparity of radiographic techniques (X-ray tube current and potential difference) in the examination.