Abstract:
Objective To study different target surface/ filtration combination and exposure modes which are influence factors to digital mammography radiation dose.
Methods Phantom of breast and rectangular wave test card were exposed to Siemens MAMMOMAT NovationDR digital breast X-ray machine by different target surface/ filtration combines and different exposure modes, radiation dose and line logarithms of test card was obtained. And then comparatively studied with clinical radiation does, observed the different quality of images.
Results There are significant difference between three different target surface/ filtration combines and two different exposure modes at the same X-ray image quality. The radiation dose of target surface/ filtration combinations of molybdenum/molybdenum, molybdenum/rhodium, and tungsten/ rhodium were 2.2 mGy, 1.5 mGy, and 1.0 mGy in model test, respectively. Compared with 3 mGy of automatic exposure, manual exposure dose decreased to 1.5 mGy. The results of clinical case and model test were completely conformed.
Conclusion Manual exposure mode and tungsten/rhodium target surface/filtration combination were advised to reduce the radiation dose in clinical application