title: Reduction of ocular lens dosage in dacrocystography.
abstract: Irradiation of the lens of the eye in dacrocystography is largely avoidable. We have measured the lens dosage in bilateral dacrocystography in vivo and in a phantom. We describe simple protective measures which can reduce the lens dosage by over 95% to less than one mGy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical School, Manchester.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Hardcastle
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Gibbon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000528:radiation effects*; D008961:Models, Structural; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011859:Radiography