Quantification of Increased Patient Radiation Dose When Gonadal Shielding Is Used With Automatic Exposure Control

Affiliations

• ¹ Director of Emergency Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: kaplans2@email.chop.edu.
• ² Section Head of Clinical Medical Physics in the Department of Radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (since retired); University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• ³ Senior Medical Physicist, Environmental Health & Radiation Safety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁴ Associate Director of Diagnostic Physics & Radiation Safety, Environmental Health & Radiation Safety, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁵ Director of Radiology Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Biostatistics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁷ Director of Radiology Physics and Engineering, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.