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Determine whether shifting between standing and supine postures significantly alters organ- and tissue-absorbed radiation doses during diagnostic X-ray examinations.

July 20, 2010Physics in Medicine and BiologyOpen Access

Posture-specific phantoms representing female and male adults in Monte Carlo-based simulations for radiological protection

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Determine whether shifting between standing and supine postures significantly alters organ- and tissue-absorbed radiation doses during diagnostic X-ray examinations.
Refined anatomical segmentations of standing adult male and female computational mesh phantoms (MASH2_sta, FASH2_sta) and developed gravity-adjusted supine models (MASH2_sup, FASH2_sup).
Conducted Monte Carlo simulations evaluating whole-body monoenergetic photon exposures above 30 keV and partial-body diagnostic chest and abdomen X-ray examinations across standing and supine orientations.
Whole-body external photon exposures for anteroposterior and posteroanterior projections above 30 keV altered effective dose by no more than 5% between postures.
Diagnostic partial-body chest and abdomen radiography simulations demonstrated posture-dependent shifts in organ absorbed doses of up to 60% between standing and supine postures.

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Simulation study reveals posture shifts alter organ absorbed doses up to 60% during clinical radiographs, indicating standing models may miscalculate radiation absorbed by supine patients.

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Cassola et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a930e0d075820add2e9c781 https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/55/15/014

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Simulation study reveals posture shifts alter organ absorbed doses up to 60% during clinical radiographs, indicating standing models may miscalculate radiation absorbed by supine patients.

Posture-specific phantoms representing female and male adults in Monte Carlo-based simulations for radiological protection

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