Issue |
Radioprotection
Volume 59, Number 2, April - June
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Page(s) | 123 - 130 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2024007 | |
Published online | 03 June 2024 |
Article
Radiation risk during thoracic CT scan for diagnostic and radiotherapy planning procedures in Hassan II, Hospital, Agadir Morocco
Radiation risk during thoracic CT scan for diagnostic and radiotherapy planning procedures in Hassan II, Hospital, Agadir Morocco
1
Team Health Techniques (ETechS), Research Laboratory in Health and Environmental Sciences (LabReSSE), Higher Institute of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques (ISPITS), Agadir, Morocco
2
Mohammed V University, Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco
3
Ibn Tofail University, Faculty of Science, Kénitra, Morocco
4
Biotechnology and Medicine (BioMed) Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
* Corresponding author: ssemghouli@gmail.com
Received:
7
November
2023
Accepted:
29
February
2024
Objective: This study aims to establish diagnostic reference levels and radiation-induced risk for the diagnostic CT-scans and the radiotherapy planning CT-scans of the thorax in the regional hospital of Agadir, Morocco.
Materials and methods: Data from two groups of patients undergoing thoracic CT-scans with either diagnostic CT-scans (G1, n = 120) or radiotherapy planning CT-scans (G2, n = 120) are collected. All acquisitions were helical. DRLs is calculated for each type of thoracic CT-scan by estimating the 75% percentile of the CTDIvol and the DLP. The total cancer risk RC was calculated according to the ICRP publication 103. The data are statistically analyzed by SPSS Statistics V21.0. The student’s t-test was used to establish the relationship between gender, clinical indication, and effective dose. The Spearman test was used to establish the relationship between age, BMI, and effective dose.
Results: DRLs in terms of CTDIvol and DLP for radiotherapy planning of thorax were 19.37 mGy and 851.9 mGy cm, respectively. In diagnostic CT-scans, DRLs in terms of CTDIvol for pulmonary embolism, infectious lung disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) were 11.13 mGy, 10.26 mGy, and 7.37 mGy respectively, and DRLs in terms of DLP were 417.73 mGy cm, 451.9 mGy cm and 317.78 mGy cm respectively. The cancer risk for radiotherapy planning CT-scans is ranged between 209 and 1564 with a mean value of 715 per 1 million of CT-scan. For diagnostic CT-scans, the cancer risk is ranged between 199 and 626 with a mean value of 357 per 1 million for pulmonary embolism, between 238 and 668 with a mean value of 369 per 1 million for infectious lung disease, and between 130 and 393 with a mean value of 244 per 1 million for COPD.
Conclusion: Optimizing the doses received by patients in medical imaging, particularly CT, has become an obligation. Reviewing practices and procedures and promoting a radiation protection culture can help to better manage the radiation doses received by the patient.
Key words: CT scan / CTDIvol / DLP / effective dose / cancer risk / thorax procedure
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