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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/57958| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Mean glandular dose to patients from stereotactic breast biopsy procedures |
| Authors: | Lucas Paixão Reis Margarita Chevalier Antonio e Hurtado-Romero Julia Garayoa |
| Abstract: | The aim of this work is to study the radiation doses delivered to a group of patients that underwent a stereotactic breast biopsy (SBB) procedure. Mean glandular doses (MGD) were estimated from the air-kerma measured at the breast surface entrance multiplying by specific conversion coefficients (DgN) that were estimated using Monte Carlo simulations. DgN were calculated for the 0° and ±15° projections used in SBB and for the particular beam quality. Data on 61 patients were collected showing that a typical SBB procedure is composed by ten images. MGD was on average (4 ± 2) mGy with (0.38 ± 0.06) mGy per image. The use of specific conversion coefficients instead of typical DgN for mammography/tomosynthesis yields to obtain MGD values for SBB that are around a 65% lower on average. |
| Subject: | Neoplasia da mama Técnicas Estereotáxicas |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE ANATOMIA E IMAGEM |
| Rights: | Acesso Restrito |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1088/1361-6560/aacb06 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/57958 |
| Issue Date: | 11-Jul-2018 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/aacb06/meta |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Physics in Medicine & Biology |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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