Integration of kerma-area product and cumulative air kerma determination into a skin dose tracking system for fluoroscopic imaging procedures

Sarath Vijayan; Alok Shankar; Stephen Rudin; Daniel R. Bednarek

doi:10.1117/12.2216822

29 March 2016 Integration of kerma-area product and cumulative air kerma determination into a skin dose tracking system for fluoroscopic imaging procedures

Sarath Vijayan, Alok Shankar, Stephen Rudin, Daniel R. Bednarek

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Proceedings Volume 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging; 97836G (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216822
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The skin dose tracking system (DTS) that we developed provides a color-coded mapping of the cumulative skin dose distribution on a 3D graphic of the patient during fluoroscopic procedures in real time. The DTS has now been modified to also calculate the kerma area product (KAP) and cumulative air kerma (CAK) for fluoroscopic interventions using data obtained in real-time from the digital bus on a Toshiba Infinix system. KAP is the integral of air kerma over the beam area and is typically measured with a large-area transmission ionization chamber incorporated into the collimator assembly. In this software, KAP is automatically determined for each x-ray pulse as the product of the air kerma/ mAs from a calibration file for the given kVp and beam filtration times the mAs per pulse times the length and width of the beam times a field nonuniformity correction factor. Field nonuniformity is primarily the result of the heel effect and the correction factor was determined from the beam profile measured using radio-chromic film. Dividing the KAP by the beam area at the interventional reference point provides the area averaged CAK. The KAP and CAK per x-ray pulse are summed after each pulse to obtain the total procedure values in real-time. The calculated KAP and CAK were compared to the values displayed by the fluoroscopy machine with excellent agreement. The DTS now is able to automatically calculate both KAP and CAK without the need for measurement by an add-on transmission ionization chamber.

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Sarath Vijayan, Alok Shankar, Stephen Rudin, and Daniel R. Bednarek "Integration of kerma-area product and cumulative air kerma determination into a skin dose tracking system for fluoroscopic imaging procedures", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 97836G (29 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216822

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