Time Dependent Deterioration of the X-Ray Dental Diagnostic Equipment

Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Digest 2012
Jurijs Dehtjars, Aljona Kamenetskikh, Maksims Polakovs, Maksims Šneiders

Statistics presented by NMS GRUPA Ltd. demonstrates that the Trophy ELITYS (25%) (further in text – ELITYS) is the most popular dental x-ray with high frequency and the Trophy IRIX 70 (13%) (further in text – IRIX 70) – with half-period generators in Latvia. Time dependent degradation of x-ray machines gives a strong impact on quality of diagnostics. However, there are no data on time dependent degradation. The goal of the study was to explore time dependent behavior of dental x-rays ELITYS and IRIX 70 dose providing parameters such as: • X-ray tube voltage [kV]. Quality of this parameter has an influence on a spectrum, image quality, and an absorbed dose. • X-ray exposure time [ms] - influences the absorbed dose. • X-ray tube output [mGy/mAs] influences the absorbed dose. • Air KERMA [mGy] – influences the absorbed dose [1].

Keywords
deterioration, x-ray, diagnostic
Hyperlink
http://scientific-conference2012.rtu.lv/sites/default/files/RTU_Conference_2012.pdf

Dehtjars, J., Kamenetskikh, A., Polakovs, M., Šneiders, M. Time Dependent Deterioration of the X-Ray Dental Diagnostic Equipment. In: Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Digest, Latvia, Riga, 10-12 October, 2012. Riga: RTU, 2012, pp.680-680. ISBN 978-9934-10-360-5.

Publication language
English (en)