TY - JOUR
TI - Establishment of diagnostic reference levels for dental intraoral radiography
AU - Manousaridis, G.
AU - Koukorava, C.
AU - Hourdakis, C.J.
AU - Kamenopoulou, V.
AU - Yakoumakis, E.
AU - Tsiklakis, K.
JO - Radiation Protection Dosimetry
PY - 2013
VL - 156
TODO - 4
SP - 455-457
PB - 
SN - 0144-8420, 1742-3406
TODO - 10.1093/rpd/nct100
TODO - article;  equipment;  film dosimeter;  Greece;  health care quality;  human;  mandible;  methodology;  molar tooth;  radiation dose;  radiation protection;  radiography;  radiometry;  standard;  tooth radiography, Film Dosimetry;  Greece;  Humans;  Mandible;  Molar;  Quality Assurance, Health Care;  Radiation Dosage;  Radiation Protection;  Radiography, Dental;  Radiography, Dental, Digital;  Radiometry;  Reference Standards
TODO - Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) is a tool for the optimisation of radiological procedures. Establishment of a DRL is a requirement of national regulations. Measurements performed by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission on 529 dental intraoral radiographic facilities have been used in order to define DRLs for digital and film imaging modalities, taking into account the region of the mouth to be imaged. Thus, different DRL values have been proposed for minimum (usually incisors), maximum (usually maxillary molars) and average exposure settings, both for film and digital imaging. The results have been compared with similar studies performed in Europe and the USA and are in line with the most recent ones. ©The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press.
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