Evaluation of patient radiation doses using DAP meter in diagnostic radiology procedures in Birjand, Iran

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 3 Shows the average, minimum, maximum, mean, median, first quartile, third quartile of DAP for X-ray examination

	Mean	Min	Max	First quartile	Median	Third quartile
Digital
Neck(Lat)	0.13559	0.0813	0.1603	0.1272	0.1415	0.1581
Neck(AP)	0.11583	0.0728	0.1435	0.0903	0.11495	0.14115
Lumbar(Lat)	2.696855	2.4213	3.0849	2.431175	2.68355	3.0423
Lumbar(AP)	2.044285	1.9699	2.1263	1.9789	2.02165	2.120075
Skull(Lat)	0.29328	0.2318	0.4298	0.256375	0.2863	0.315425
Skull(AP)	0.29574	0.1748	0.4215	0.1901	0.283	0.380175
Skull(AP)	0.5211	0.5005	0.5053	0.5198	0.503110256	0.4611
Pelvic	1.6178	1.4498	1.5322	1.5712	1.496433333	1.2528
CXR	0.1128	0.0922	0.0934	0.0975	0.096048718	0.0868
Conventional
Pelvic	1.3405	0.801775	0.9365	1.09705	0.963776316	0.7812
Lumbar(AP)	2.73039	0.3509	42.11	0.419725	0.62625	0.934375
Lumbar(Lat)	2.491505	1.6411	3.0821	2.3871	2.6719	2.7394
CXR	0.091282	0.0632	0.1435	0.0789	0.092	0.0945
Abdomen	0.372174	0.234	0.5428	0.32525	0.35775	0.461
Skull(AP)	0.26941	0.0449	0.4047	0.23865	0.25255	0.3029
Skull(Lat)	0.20284	0.1497	0.2771	0.1863	0.1961	0.2133
Neck(AP)	0.11606	0.0745	0.2089	0.093375	0.10215	0.135275