Eye Lens Dose Optimization Through Gantry Tilting in Brain Ct Scan: The Potential Effect of the Radiological Technologists’ Training

Ebrahiminia, Ali; Asadinezhad, Mohsen; Mohammadi, Fatemeh; Khoshgard, Karim

doi:10.1093/rpd/ncaa073

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“…A study carried out in Iran in 2020 by Ebrahiminia et al. ( 16 ) found that the training of the radiological technologists resulted in the reduction of radiation dose to the lens by 83%. In our study, we could not calculate a similar percentage, since the dose estimations for the Class B studies could not be calculated.…”

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“…Currently, the radiation dose of lenses can also be reduced by adapting organ-based dose modulation ( 15 ) , or optimising gantry tilt angle. When the gantry tilt angle is aligned with the supraorbitomeatal line (SOML, Figure 1 ), the lens is not exposed to the primary beam and the radiation dose is reduced by 75–93% ( 16–19 ) . However, Omer et al .…”

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Radiation Dose of the Eye Lens in Ct Examinations of the Brain in Clinical Practice—the Effect of Radiographer Training to Optimise Gantry Tilt and Scan Length

Tarkiainen

Nadhum

Heikkilä

et al. 2023

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

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Lenses are always exposed to radiation in brain computed tomography (CT) scans. However, the lens dose can be reduced by excluding lens from scanning area by optimising gantry tilt and scan length. The object of this study is to retrospectively analyse if the optimisation by gantry tilt and scan length have been adequate in the CT scan of the brain, and to prospectively analyse the effect of radiographer training to the quality of the CT examinations. This study was conducted in two parts. In all, 329 brain CTs performed in the Tampere University Hospital from 2017 to 2019 were revised retrospectively. The prospective part included 51 brain CT studies conducted in October 2021. Dose to the eye of the lens was modelled using CT-Expo using zero-degree beam angle and scan lengths to expose the lens either to the primary or scattered radiation. Non-zero gantry tilt had been used in a large proportion of the CT examinations in the retrospective setting, 84.8%. However, the lenses were successfully excluded from the scan area in only 1.8% of the examinations. In the prospective part, the gantry tilt was used in 98% of the studies and the proportion of successful examinations rose from 1.8 to 11.8%. The lens dose decreased significantly when the eyes were excluded from the imaging area. The modelled lens dose in the large retrospective part was 25.9 mGy (17.8–49.2 mGy) when the eyes were included and 1.5 mGy (0.4–1.9 mGy) when the eyes were excluded. The lens dose was similar in the small prospective part. Despite the gantry tilt is widely used, unnecessary lens irradiation occurs extensively because of suboptimal gantry tilt and scan length. The training of radiographers reduces the radiation exposure to the lens by more optimal gantry tilt and scan length.

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Radiation Dose of the Eye Lens in Ct Examinations of the Brain in Clinical Practice—the Effect of Radiographer Training to Optimise Gantry Tilt and Scan Length

Tarkiainen

Nadhum

Heikkilä

et al. 2023

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

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“…There are other parameters that are used to evaluate patient radiation dose through CT examinations, including volumetric CT dose index (CTDI vol ) and dose length product (DLP). However, both of these parameters measure scanner output and neglect the patient’s body type [ 14 – 16 ]. To tackle this matter, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) formed a task group to devise an appropriate tool for investigating the radiation dose received by a patient during CT examination.…”

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Prediction of breast dose in chest CT examinations using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)

Bahonar,

Changizi,

Ebrahiminia

et al. 2023

Phys Eng Sci Med

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In chest computed tomography (CT), the breasts located within the scan range receive a substantial radiation dose. Due to the risk of breast-related carcinogenesis, analyzing the breast dose for justification of CT examinations seems necessary. The main goal of this study is to overcome the limitations of conventional dosimetry methods, such as thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) by introducing the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) approach. In this study, the breast dose of 50 adult female patients who underwent chest CT examinations was measured directly by TLDs. Then, the ANFIS model was developed with four inputs including dose length product (DLP), volumetric CT dose index (CTDI vol ), total mAs, and size-specific dose estimate (SSDE), and one output (TLD dose). Additionally, multiple linear regression (MLR) as a traditional prediction model was used for linear modeling and its results were compared with the ANFIS. The TLD reader results showed that the breast dose value was 12.37 ± 2.46 mGy. Performance indices of the ANFIS model, including root mean square error (RMSE) and correlation coefficient (R), were calculated at 0.172 and 0.93 for the testing dataset, respectively. Also, the ANFIS model had superior performance in predicting the breast dose than the MLR model (R = 0.805). This study demonstrates that the proposed ANFIS model is efficient for patient dose prediction in CT scans. Therefore, intelligence models such as ANFIS are suggested to estimate and optimize patient dose in CT examinations.

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“…2 The speed of acquisition of CT scanners is an advantage that makes it so widely used in clinical examinations. The first CT scanner took approximately 300 s to acquire an image of a single slice, 3 but now hundreds of slices can be obtained just in one rotation of the X-ray tube in less than a second.…”

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“…Head CT examinations in clinical practices often lead to the eye lens being exposed to the primary radiation. 3,6 The dose threshold determined by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) for the eye lens is 500 mGy, and eye dose limit for cataract formation is 2000 mGy. 6,7 Generally, the dose for head CT examination is approximately 50 mGy.…”

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Automatic validation of the gantry tilt in a computed tomography scanner using a head polymethyl methacrylate phantom

Noviliawati

Anam

Sutanto

et al. 2021

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering

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The purpose of this study was to develop an automatic method for validating the computed tomography gantry tilt. A head polymethyl methacrylate phantom with a diameter of 16 cm was used. Gantry tilt angles were measured both manually and automatically. Manual measurements were performed by measuring the length of the anteroposterior and lateral diameters from acquired images using electronic calipers. Automatic measurements consisted of a number of steps: phantom segmentation, determination of the center of the phantom, measurement of the anteroposterior and lateral diameters, and computation of the gantry tilt angle. The method was implemented on the gantry angles from 0° to 15°. The proposed method of measuring gantry angles produced accurate gantry tilt angles. The differences with the angles displayed on the gantry were less than 1°. The results of the automatic method were the same as those of the manual method (R2 > 0.98).

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Eye Lens Dose Optimization Through Gantry Tilting in Brain Ct Scan: The Potential Effect of the Radiological Technologists’ Training

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Radiation Dose of the Eye Lens in Ct Examinations of the Brain in Clinical Practice—the Effect of Radiographer Training to Optimise Gantry Tilt and Scan Length

Radiation Dose of the Eye Lens in Ct Examinations of the Brain in Clinical Practice—the Effect of Radiographer Training to Optimise Gantry Tilt and Scan Length

Prediction of breast dose in chest CT examinations using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)

Automatic validation of the gantry tilt in a computed tomography scanner using a head polymethyl methacrylate phantom

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