Equipment Use

There are things that we can do on X-ray equipment that will ultimately allow us to try to reduce our dose or reduce the amount of scattered radiation going through the room. One of these is your frames per second. The standard frame per second or what is typically utilized is 15 frames per second on most of our x-ray equipment. As long as you're okay with the image quality and you can still see from a physician standpoint what you're working on, dropping your frames per second to say seven point five can have a dramatic decrease in the amount of scatter agents going through the room and that we're being exposed to. Using something like real-time dosimetry can visually show you what that represents as far as that scatter radiation in real-time in visual feedback, so that it has more impact showing our clinicians that reducing does in real-time and receive it back on trying to load another item that we can use on the x-ray for moods combination. So our new position residents and fellows can use something like dosimetry to understand concentrate. So keeping the extra material having a 60-degree angle as in can sometimes increase the amount of scatter radiation by three times to the staff at the cylinder.