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Radiation dose in temporomandibular joint zonography
M E Coucke1, R R Bourgoignie, L R Dermaut
1Department of Orthodontics, Universitair Ziekenhuis, Ghent, Belgium.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
Temporomandibular joint morphology and function can be evaluated by panoramic zonography. Thermoluminescent dosimetry was applied to evaluate the radiation dose to predetermined sites on a phantom eye, thyroid, pituitary, and parotid, and the dose distribution on the skin of the head and neck when the TMJ program of the Zonarc panoramic x-ray unit was used. Findings are discussed with reference to similar radiographic techniques.