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South African Dental Journal

versión On-line ISSN 0375-1562
versión impresa ISSN 0011-8516

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DIMTCHEV, DL  y  BUCH, B. A comparison of radiation doses to selected vital organs in the maxillo-facial region using three different settings on the Galileos CBCT machine housed in the Wits Dental Hospital. S. Afr. dent. j. [online]. 2017, vol.72, n.8, pp.350-354. ISSN 0375-1562.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2519-0105/2017/v72no8a1.

A comparison of radiation doses to selected vital organs in the maxillo-facial region at three different settings on the Galileos® cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) machine in the Wits Dental Hospital was conducted with the courtesy of the Department of Medical Physics of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. The study made use of the RANDO® phantom and TLD- 100 detector chips which provided detailed mapping of the dose distribution from the Galileos CBCT machine. Sixty-two Sanford® lithium fluoride dosimeters- (TLD- 100) were irradiated using a calibrated known x-ray source after having undergone a recommended annealing cycle. The data showed acceptable consistency in the results. Association between the different imaging modalities was further investigated using Kruskal-Wallis equality-of-populations rank test and Chi-squared test. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Since there do not appear to be major differences between the radiation doses for the different settings of the Galileos CBCT machine, the authors recommend the use of the combined setting at all times for optimum image quality.

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