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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on July 20, 2004
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch338
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Received March 11, 2004
Revised May 15, 2004
Accepted May 19, 2004

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

RADIATION DOSE TO PREMATURE INFANTS IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS IN KUWAIT

A. Brindhaban 1* K. Al-Khalifah 1

1 Department of Radiologic Sciences, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 31470, Sulaibikhat 90805, Kuwait

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ajit{at}hsc.kuniv.edu.kw.


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Entrance surface dose (ESD) and effective dose (E) to premature infants were estimated at three neonatal intensive care units in Kuwait for three standard X-ray examinations--abdominal, chest and skull X rays using a simple water phantom. The ESD was found to vary between 58 and 102 µGy for abdominal X rays, between 51 and 102 µGy for chest X rays and between 58 and 145 µGy for skull examinations. These doses are comparable to the entrance skin doses published elsewhere. The E-values were estimated using normalised organ dose dataset from the National Radiological Protection Board. The E-values for abdominal, chest and skull examinations were in the ranges of 30-46, 20-36 and 8-18 µSv per examination, respectively. The risk of developing childhood cancers from each of the three examinations was estimated to be in the range (9-117) x 10-6 for infants undergoing 25 of these X-ray examinations during their stay in the NIC unit.


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