Current status of diagnostic imaging in dental university hospitals in Japan |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Takehito?SasakiEmail author Minoru?Fujita Tsuguhisa?Katoh Kaoru?Kobayashi Tomohiro?Okano Kenji?Sato Shinichi?Wada |
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Institution: | (1) Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8549, Japan;(2) Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan;(3) Tokyo Metropolitan University of Health Sciences, School of Radiologic Science, Tokyo, Japan;(4) Department of Oral Radiology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, Yokohama, Japan;(5) Department of Oral Radiology, Showa University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan;(6) Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, The Nippon Dental University, School of Dentistry at Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;(7) Department of Radiological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan |
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Abstract: | The diagnostic imaging examinations in all 29 dental university hospitals in Japan were analyzed during a 1-year period from April 1999 to March 2000. The total number of patients examined was 790 859, which corresponded to 27 271 patients per hospital on average, with a range from 7872 to 62 904. Relative to the total number of patients, intraoral radiography was found to have been most frequently performed, 59% on average, with a range from 40% to 80%, depending on the hospital. Extraoral radiography, mostly panoramic radiography, was 36% on average with the range from 18% to 56%.A significant inverse correlation was observed between the percentages of intraoral and extraoral radiography, relative to the total number of all types of imaging examinations. Computed tomography (CT) examinations were performed with their own apparatuses in 27 hospitals with a frequency of 2.9% of patients in all imaging examinations on average and 9.1% at maximum. The scanning parameter of milliampere seconds (mAs) for individual types of routinely performed CT examinations varied widely, and thus the patient dose can be expected to be considerably reduced, without reducing the amount of diagnostic information to be obtained. Other imaging examinations performed were magnetic resonance imaging in 11 hospitals, X-ray fluoroscopy in 8 hospitals, ultrasonography in 20, nuclear medicine in 5, and bone densitometry in 1 hospital.A report from the Radiation Protection Committee (Chairperson, T. Sasaki), Japanese Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. A portion of this study was presented at the 4th ACOMFR, June 16, 2002, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
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Keywords: | Dental university hospital Radiation protection Intraoral Panoramic CT |
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