Image Quality in Paediatric Radiography
“Image quality” in diagnostic radiology has been defined differently by physicists and radiologists. Physicists usually evaluate the objective image quality using standardized phantom measurements, i.e. the optical density, the spatial and contrast resolu
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Imaging Practice and Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology
Michael Seidenbusch Veronika Rösenberger • Karl Schneider
Imaging Practice and Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology Conventional Radiography
Michael Seidenbusch Department of Paediatric Radiology Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital University of Munich Munich Germany
Veronika Rösenberger Department of Paediatric Radiology Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital University of Munich Munich Germany
Karl Schneider Department of Paediatric Radiology Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital University of Munich Munich Germany
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This book is dedicated to Karla with my sincerest thanks for all her love and patience and to my parents for rendering possible my path of life and my professional history. Munich, Summer 2019 Michael Seidenbusch
Foreword
In neonates, organs and tissues of infants and young children are localized closer to each other than in adults and—according to radio-biological investigations—children are more sensitive to ionizing radiation. Quality criteria for diagnostic radiographic imaging needed to be specifically adapted to paediatric radiology. After the important work in 1979 of Rosenstein on the calculation of organ doses in paediatric age groups, this book closes a wide gap on this topic. The authors, internationally renowned in the field, provide new normalized organ doses for conventional paediatric X-ray examinations in all age groups. Although the mathematical phantoms had some inaccuracies concerning the location
