From: "Judith Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear All I encourage my students to place Pb directly on the table top under the cassette, for extremity work, thus attempting to eliminate back scatter and, any radiation that might make it through to the thigh that has somehow made its way under the tabletop
As the general public is so concerned about radiation protection these days, it is important to reassure them that we are doing our best to protect them, so even if we place the Pb over the gonads (and we know that basically they are not receiving any exposure in this region), the patient is reassured that the right thing has been done With large parts, ie x-table L-spine, x-table hip, it is a good idea to place behind the cassette to prevent backscatter degrading the image (one thing I advocate, but some of my collegues disagree with). Some spur of the moment experiments in our school lab demonstrated that there wasn't much difference in image quality (with the size of phantoms we were using), however, I was not convinced and still encourage as much Pb usage as possible. So far I haven't had the opportunity to experiment with the Fuji CR that has recently been installed at the school (with phantoms of course). But once I return from 'clinical' in January, I'm sure opportunities will arise. I strongly advocate using pB, any others out there that do the same???? Judith Holt +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= This message is being broadcast by AIRNEWS, the Australian Institute of Radiography list Server Send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For assistance send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commands should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions expressed on this list are not necessarily those of the moderator, his assistants or those of the A.I.R.
