[Measures for reducing exposure to scattered radiation in urologic roentgen diagnosis]

A simple device to reduce the urologic examiner's exposure to radiation is presented. The doses the examiner and his assistant staff are exposed to performing various methods of urologic radiodiagnosis were measured and the following exposure to radiation determined with and without radioprotective device. The measurements demonstrate, that already by simple measures considerable reduction of the exposure to radiation can be obtained for examiner and assistant personnel. The frequently neglected importance of scattered radiation resulting from urologic radiography is discussed.