The quality control tests' methods, as well as the criteria for scoring the results, are in full agreement with those specified in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Report No.4 and IEC 61223-3-1 (AAPM, 1981; IEC 61223-3-1, 1999 (Bouzarjomehri, 2004; Ciraj et al., 2005; Ramanandraibe, 2009; Papadimitriou, 2001; Shahbazi-Gahrouei, 2006). Some investigators focused only patient dose optimization (Brix et al., 2005; Vano& Fernandez, 2007; Seibert, 2004; Williams &Catling, 1998), whereas the others examined both the patient dose and image quality in radiographic devices (Aldrich et al., 2006; Schaefer-Prokop et al., 2008; Geijer, 2002). There are also studies that give reference values for clinical x-ray examinations by measuring phantom dose (Gray et al., 2005) . But there is no any study focused to the dose optimization during quality control tests of x-ray devices. Dose optimization is very important because of the quality and quantity of quality control tests of x-ray equipmentconclusion this study shows that optimization of technical factors may lead to a substantial dose reduction. If the optimized parameters are applied to X-ray equipment during quality control tests, it is possible to determine how much good image quality will be obtained with this optimized parameters and how much dose will be measured when this qualified image is developed. The results show the importance of radiographic staff training about the recommended parameters that are applied to the x-ray units for a qualified quality control system. It is essential to provide relevant education and training to staff in the radiology departments.It can be sure that with such a study the questions on many professional staff's mind will be answered, and the dose and the image characteristics will be parameters that are controlled and managed.
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