Mean glandular dose to patients from stereotactic breast biopsy procedures

Phys Med Biol. 2018 Jul 11;63(14):145008. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aacb06.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to study the radiation doses delivered to a group of patients that underwent a stereotactic breast biopsy (SBB) procedure. Mean glandular doses (MGD) were estimated from the air-kerma measured at the breast surface entrance multiplying by specific conversion coefficients (DgN) that were estimated using Monte Carlo simulations. DgN were calculated for the 0° and ±15° projections used in SBB and for the particular beam quality. Data on 61 patients were collected showing that a typical SBB procedure is composed by ten images. MGD was on average (4 ± 2) mGy with (0.38 ± 0.06) mGy per image. The use of specific conversion coefficients instead of typical DgN for mammography/tomosynthesis yields to obtain MGD values for SBB that are around a 65% lower on average.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Breast / diagnostic imaging
  • Breast / physiopathology*
  • Breast / radiation effects
  • Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mammography / methods*
  • Monte Carlo Method*
  • Phantoms, Imaging*
  • Radiation Dosage