Also, they give you a lead garment to protect the areas that aren’t being x-rayed. So the technicians are taking appropriate safety precautions for you as well as themselves.
Even without that precaution you get more radiation exposure from a long plane ride than from a single x-ray (less atmosphere above you = less shielding from cosmic radiation).
Like I said, collimation is what’s key: if you don’t put other body parts into the beam there is no need to put lead on a patient. Lead garments don’t work for the patient. It only helps to protect others around them from radiation that’s scattered in the patient and coming out at different angles.
So next time they hand you one, ask them to properly collimate instead.
They aren’t even in the same room. They have a special walled booth. They’ve given me a vest when having my arm up out on a table. Seems somebody needs better equipment or better training
Mate, you really need to read better LOL, like I said in my first comment, it’s for fluoroscopy or X-ray assisted surgery
And the lead garment was bullshit as I have been telling you for a bunch of times now. Read up about x-ray machines and collimation before you accuse someone of not knowing what they’re talking about because you had an X-ray a few times xD
But who you originally responded to wasn’t talking about the fluoroscope. They meant in general, that’s why I said they meant the vest the patient wears. Also during my fluoroscope I was bare obviously but the doctors had aprons for obvious reasons.
Reading online its only more modern equipment that has good colluminarion adjustments, older equipment is still suggesting using patient protection, per the original comment
Also, they give you a lead garment to protect the areas that aren’t being x-rayed. So the technicians are taking appropriate safety precautions for you as well as themselves.
Even without that precaution you get more radiation exposure from a long plane ride than from a single x-ray (less atmosphere above you = less shielding from cosmic radiation).
Lead garments are usually used to protect the doctors and technologists during fluoroscopy or x-ray guided therapy or surgery.
Collimation is what protects the areas that aren’t x-rayed in a patient.
They mean the lead garment the patient wears to avoid xrwy to vital areas
No, that’s what I said. They don’t
As a patient I have worn them, do they not have them where you go?
Like I said, collimation is what’s key: if you don’t put other body parts into the beam there is no need to put lead on a patient. Lead garments don’t work for the patient. It only helps to protect others around them from radiation that’s scattered in the patient and coming out at different angles.
So next time they hand you one, ask them to properly collimate instead.
They aren’t even in the same room. They have a special walled booth. They’ve given me a vest when having my arm up out on a table. Seems somebody needs better equipment or better training
Mate, you really need to read better LOL, like I said in my first comment, it’s for fluoroscopy or X-ray assisted surgery
And the lead garment was bullshit as I have been telling you for a bunch of times now. Read up about x-ray machines and collimation before you accuse someone of not knowing what they’re talking about because you had an X-ray a few times xD
But who you originally responded to wasn’t talking about the fluoroscope. They meant in general, that’s why I said they meant the vest the patient wears. Also during my fluoroscope I was bare obviously but the doctors had aprons for obvious reasons.
Reading online its only more modern equipment that has good colluminarion adjustments, older equipment is still suggesting using patient protection, per the original comment
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It depends on the xray and positions etc. I’ve had it with the lead apron and not