Bernhard Renger, Carina Brieskorn, Vivien Toth, Detlef Mentrup, Sascha Jockel, Fabian Lohöfer, Martin Schwarz, Ernst J Rummeny, Peter B Noël
Bedside chest X-rays (CXR) for catheter position control may add up to a considerable radiation dose for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). In this study, image quality and dose reduction potentials of a novel X-ray scatter correction software (SkyFlow, Philips Healthcare, Hamburg, Germany) were evaluated. CXRs of a 'LUNGMAN' (Kyoto Kagaku Co., LTD, Kyoto, Japan) thoracic phantom with a portacath system, a central venous line and a dialysis catheter were performed in an experimental set-up with multiple tube voltage and tube current settings without and with an antiscatter grid...
June 2016: Radiation Protection Dosimetry