Effectiveness of protective thyroid shield in chest X-ray imaging

Chest X-ray imaging is the most common X-ray imaging method for diagnosing coronavirus disease. The thyroid gland is one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the body, particularly in infants and children. Therefore, it must be protected during chest X-ray imaging. Yet, because it has benefits...

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Autores principales: Alkhateeb, Shyma M., Bamusa, Abdulkreem, Almutairi, Nawaf, Barayan, Badr, Alamodi, Hasan, Alnadawi, Fouad, Alnowaimi, Majdi
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10089664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37065502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.110965
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author Alkhateeb, Shyma M.
Bamusa, Abdulkreem
Almutairi, Nawaf
Barayan, Badr
Alamodi, Hasan
Alnadawi, Fouad
Alnowaimi, Majdi
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Bamusa, Abdulkreem
Almutairi, Nawaf
Barayan, Badr
Alamodi, Hasan
Alnadawi, Fouad
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description Chest X-ray imaging is the most common X-ray imaging method for diagnosing coronavirus disease. The thyroid gland is one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the body, particularly in infants and children. Therefore, it must be protected during chest X-ray imaging. Yet, because it has benefits and drawbacks, using a thyroid shield as protection during chest X-ray imaging is still up for debate.Therefore, this study aims to clarify the need for using a protective thyroid shield during chest X-ray imaging. This study was performed using different dosimeters (silica beads as a thermoluminescent dosimeter and an optically stimulated luminance dosimeter) embedded in an adult male ATOM dosimetric phantom. The phantom was irradiated using a portable X-ray machine with and without thyroid shielding. The dosimeter readings indicated that a thyroid shield reduced the radiation dose to the thyroid gland by 69% ± 18% without degrading the obtained radiograph. The use of a protective thyroid shield during chest X-ray imaging is recommended because its benefits outweigh the risks.
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spelling pubmed-100896642023-04-12 Effectiveness of protective thyroid shield in chest X-ray imaging Alkhateeb, Shyma M. Bamusa, Abdulkreem Almutairi, Nawaf Barayan, Badr Alamodi, Hasan Alnadawi, Fouad Alnowaimi, Majdi Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 Article Chest X-ray imaging is the most common X-ray imaging method for diagnosing coronavirus disease. The thyroid gland is one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the body, particularly in infants and children. Therefore, it must be protected during chest X-ray imaging. Yet, because it has benefits and drawbacks, using a thyroid shield as protection during chest X-ray imaging is still up for debate.Therefore, this study aims to clarify the need for using a protective thyroid shield during chest X-ray imaging. This study was performed using different dosimeters (silica beads as a thermoluminescent dosimeter and an optically stimulated luminance dosimeter) embedded in an adult male ATOM dosimetric phantom. The phantom was irradiated using a portable X-ray machine with and without thyroid shielding. The dosimeter readings indicated that a thyroid shield reduced the radiation dose to the thyroid gland by 69% ± 18% without degrading the obtained radiograph. The use of a protective thyroid shield during chest X-ray imaging is recommended because its benefits outweigh the risks. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-08 2023-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10089664/ /pubmed/37065502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.110965 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Effectiveness of protective thyroid shield in chest X-ray imaging
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10089664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37065502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.110965
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