Imaging Practice and Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology Conventional Radiography /

• Main Authors: Seidenbusch, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Rösenberger, Veronika (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Schneider, Karl (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Radiology.; Pediatrics.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Medical and Radiation Physics.

This book offers the reader sound advice on how to perform optimal conventional pediatric radiographs and how to obtain quick and easy organ dose estimates in order to improve the optimization process in pediatric imaging. Clear guidelines are provided for minimization of the radiation exposure of c...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Outline of Paediatric radiology
• Radiation exposure and radiation risk in diagnostic radiology
• Image quality and radiographic technique
• Fundamentals of Radiation Dosimetry: Radiation dose and dosimetry in paediatric radiology
• Image quality in paediatric radiology
• Technical principles of conventional paediatric radiography
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Normalized Organ Doses for Conventional Radiographs : Introduction
• Skull
• Chest
• Babygram
• Abdomen
• Pelvis
• Spine
• Hip joint
• Upper Extremities
• Lower Extremities
• Shoulder and clavicle. .