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Comparison of Exposure Dose by Using AEC Mode of Abdomen AP Study in Radiography

복부 전후 방향 검사의 자동노출제어 사용 시 선량 비교 연구

  • 김기원 (강동경희대학교병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 권용락 (삼성서울병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 서승원 (삼성서울병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 권경태 (동남보건대학교 방사선과) ;
  • 오주영 (서울아산병원 의생명연구소) ;
  • 손순룡 (서울아산병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 손진현 (신구대학교 방사선과) ;
  • 민정환 (신구대학교 방사선과)
  • Received : 2015.07.27
  • Accepted : 2015.09.01
  • Published : 2015.09.30

Abstract

We evaluated the effectiveness of TL (Time Limit) method by comparing with NTL (Non-time limit) method when it is used for examinations for abdomen Anterior Posterior (AP) in this paper. The evaluation was conducted based on the comparison of dose, and of signal to noise ratio (SNR) and contrast to ratio (CNR) on both methods. The experiments were conducted with XGEO GC 80 (Samsung, Korea), Unfors ThinX RAD (Unfors, Sweden) and Rando Phantom (Alderson research laboratories, USA) and shielding material with the size of $5.5{\times}9{\times}0.1cm^3$. It was set to activate only two upper ionization chambers in automatic exposure control(AEC) mode and the tube-voltage was set to 80kVp. When the exposure time was limited, it is limited to 51 msec. The images both by NTL AEC method and TL AEC method were acquired when with and without attachment of shielding material on the upper ionization chambers. The images were evaluated by SNR and CNR which are the image evaluation methods using 'Image J'. The NTL AEC method showed increases in dose as much as 130.7% at maximum and 80% at minimum than other methods. The TL AEC method showed decreases in mAs and exposure dose than the NTL AEC method as much as 43.8% and 44.4% respectively. There were no significant differences in SNR or CNR for the experiments (($p{\geq}0.05$). Therefore, it is suggested that the TLAEC mode is more effective when examining patients who have high BMI index or a patient with a metallic substance in the body after surgery.

복부 전후 방향 검사 시 automatic exposure control (AEC) mode에서 조사시간을 제한하지 않고 검사를 하는 방법 (non-time limit, NTL) 과 조사시간을 제한하고 검사하는 방법 (time limit, TL)에 대해서 영상 품질 평가인 신호 대 잡음비 (signal to noise ratio, SNR), 대조도 대 잡음비 (contrast to ratio, CNR)를 측정하여 TL 방법과 NTL방법을 비교 평가하고자 하였다. 실험 기기는 XGEO GC 80 (Samsung, Korea), Unfors ThinX RAD (Unfors, Sweden), Rando Phantom (alderson research laboratories, USA)과 $5.5{\times}9{\times}0.1cm^3$ 크기의 차폐재를 사용하였으며, AEC mode에서 전리함 (ionization chamber)를 상단 2 개만 작동하도록 설정하고 관전압은 80 kVp로 설정하였다. TL 방법의 경우에는 조사시간을 51 msec로 제한하였으며, 전리함에 차폐재를 부착하지 않은 상태와 부착한 상태에서 NTL AEC mode와 TL AEC mode의 영상을 획득하였다. 또한 'Image J"를 이용하여 영상 평가방법인 SNR과 CNR로 평가하였다. 결론적으로 차폐재를 부착했을 때 NTL AEC mode가 다른 실험 방법보다 선량이 최대 130.7% 최소 80%까지 증가한 결과 값을 보였으며, TL AEC mode는 NTL AEC mode보다 mAs와 피폭선량에서 각 각 43.8%, 44.4% 감소한 값을 보였다. 통계적으로는 SNR과 CNR은 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다($p{\geq}0.05$). 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 BMI 지수가 높은 환자나 수술 후 인체 내에 금속물질이 있는 환자를 검사할 경우에는 TL AEC mode가 유효한 검사법이라고 사료된다.

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