Dental Cone Beam Ct Radiation Dose

How does this compare to other forms of radiation and how do you explain this to patients.

Dental cone beam ct radiation dose.

Radiation exposure from cbct is up to 10 times less than that incurred from medical ct scanning which exposes a patient to a dose of approximately 400 to 1000 µsv. Radiation dose in dental cone beam ct cbct and to define a preliminary volume dose model. Radiat prot dosimetry 2005. Pcxmc 2 0 rotation reporting a all 29 organ doses and total effective dose according to icrp 103 at centerline and b different tissue weighting factors for the calculation of the effective dose according to icrp 103.

As cone beam computed tomography cbct is increasingly used in non dental examinations its effective dose needs to be known. Dental cone beam computed tomography ct is a special type of x ray machine used in situations where regular dental or facial x rays are not sufficient. This study aimed to review the published evidence on effective dose of non dental cbct for diagnostic use by focusing on dosimetry system used to estimate dose. Dose measurements were undertaken on a 3d accuitomo 170 dental cbct unit j.

With the development of cone beam ct scans designed for private dental offices patients could have the necessary radiographic imaging with a ten fold decrease in radiation exposure compared to the medical scan. Newtom cone beam ct and orthophos plus ds panoramic unit. It is not used routinely because the radiation exposure from this scanner is significantly more than regular dental x rays. B median of published effective dose for digital dental panoramic radiography 14 µsv.

The cbct systems used by dental professionals rotate around the patient. Morita kyoto japan using. Depending on the scan mode the radiation dose of a cbct is about 3 6 times an opg 8 14 times a pa and 15 26 times a lateral lc. The average effective dose from background radiation is about 3 msv per year.

The total effective dose was 30 99 μsv in the dental cbct x ray beam centerline. Organ and effective doses were estimated using 148 thermoluminescent dosemeters placed in an anthropomorphic phantom. C annual per capita 3 0 msv 3 000 µsv per annum or approximately 8 2 µsv per day we can assume that an average radiation dose for a cone beam ct of the jaws taken for implant purposes is approximately 130 µsv. Sometimes this represented an inconvenience to the patient both in time and cost and always resulted in more exposure to radiation.