Radiation Dose and Risk Assessment to Patients During Thoraco-Lumbar and Lumbar Spine X-ray Procedures

Abstract

- High doses of ionizing radiation [X-ray] received by patients can lead to adverse health outcomes such as cancer induction and other biological complications in patients. The extensive demand for X-ray examinations, an increase in the number of X-ray facilities and few radiation researches conducted in Kebbi State led to the conduct of this research. The X-ray doses received by Sixty nine (69) adult patients with a total of 8 from Sir Yahaya Memorial Hospital (SYMH) and 61 patients from Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Birnin Kebbi were analyzed using CAL DOSE_ X 5.0 version software by entering the patients' data (Age, Sex) and exposure parameters such as focus to detector distance (FDD), miliampere second (mAs)