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Radiologists and medical physicists are upending the decades-old practice of shielding patients from radiation with heavy lead aprons when they get an X-ray.

In some hospitals, fetuses and reproductive organs are no longer covered during an imaging exam. A number of prominent medical experts have said this is a feel-good measure that can actually do harm to a patient’s health by reducing the quality of diagnostic tests.

The move is meant to improve healthcare, but regulators, healthcare workers, and the public will need to be reassured that shielding isn’t the way to go. Shielding can cause problems since radiation is ingrained in the collective psyche. In addition, most X-rays are performed at dentists’ offices, which account for more than half of all X-rays used.

What does research tell us about shielding now?

For the following reasons, research suggests that using these lead apron during diagnostic imaging is no longer necessary:

Routine diagnostic imaging usually exposes the gonads to far less radiation than is necessary to adversely affect fertility. Radiation can be direct (such as from a pelvic radiograph) or indirect (from imaging another part of the body).

According to the size of the patient, the X-ray machine controls how much radiation a patient is exposed to (automatic exposure control). Due to the fact that the X-ray machine attempts to image through the lead shield, the patient would be exposed to increased radiation exposure if the lead shield is detected by the device.

As a result of shielding, the image may become obscured, making the X-ray or CT scan unusable, resulting in an incomplete interpretation or additional radiation exposure.

Often, lead shields miss the areas they are supposed to provide protection, as they are difficult to position accurately. However, even when they are placed in the right place, they can obscure vital areas of the body – for instance, a swallowed object — which would need to be reimaged, a challenge faced by hospital physicists.

In an effort to “see-through” the lead, shields can also increase the radiation being sent to all parts of the subject’s body when an X-ray machine is being used. 

For what reasons Lead aprons/traditional shielding was used in the past?

Radiation protection for reproductive organs was believed to be necessary. A new study has shown that it is not as beneficial as once believed, and is in fact detrimental to the quality of diagnostic images.

Is there a way to ensure patients won’t receive unnecessary radiation?

The ALARA (as Low as Reasonably Achievable) principle states that we should image with the least exposure to radiation possible. Alara’s lead shielding has historically been a critical component. Technology improvements allow us to lower radiation exposure without compromising image quality (automatic exposure control).

Due to automatic exposure control, the shields may actually result in more radiation exposure due to the shielding. There is also a possibility of shields blocking imaging areas, which would require repeated X-rays and additional radiation. ALARA’s basic principles are violated by these potential issues.

While you use your Windows computers, normally, there are some bugs and errors that you may have to face. There are different types of errors, but when it comes to using the Remote Access Connection Manager, there is an error “0xc0000005”.

Sometimes it also occurs with reference to “rasman.dll.” Although facing this error can be very frustrating, here we will be discussing how you can easily get rid of this error.

What is rasman?

Before you start resolving the error, it will be beneficial to know all about the error, its category, and the root cause. When you are on a Windows device, a Remote Access Connection Manager Service is known as RasMan. Its job is to manage all the VPN connections occurring on the system to the connected networks or the internet.

Whenever the computer is connected, and the service sends a VPN connection request or dials the connection, this issue is common. The root cause of this issue is when the VPM configuration is set to Always On VPN. It is regardless of whether you are using a VPS connection and device tunnel or not.

Is rasman safe?

When you dig deeper into your computer’s files, you will see that a file named rasman.exe exists. While .exe is commonly used for executable files, it is also a common method for sending virus files to your computer.

So, a major concern that people have about the Remote Access Connection Manager rasman.exe file is whether it is safe or not. Well, there are a few methods of telling if the file is safe or not.

• If the rasman.exe file is already present on your computer, you will need to check its location. If the location is the same as it should be, then the rasman.exe file is safe and original. Otherwise, it may not be safe for the computer.
• Suppose you are going to download the rasman.exe or rasman.dll file from any online or offline source. You need to make sure that the source is trustable and authentic. Some websites are spreading viruses, so you need to make sure to get the files downloaded only from the Windows authentic websites whenever needed.

By these two simple checks, you can easily tell if the rasman.exe or rasman.dll files are safe for your computer or not.

How to debug?

Now that you know all about the Remote Access Connection Manager and the errors happening with rasman.dll files, it is time that you know to debug and solve the issue as well. Solving the issue with Remote Access Connection Manager or RasMan error with code “0xc0000005” can be solved using the following methods:

• Installing the KB Update 4505903
• Using the Group Policy
• Enabling the Telemetry in Settings
• Using the Registry Editor to Enable the Telemetry

Resolving the errors with rasman.dll files can be easily solved using any of these methods, and here is the step-by-step guide for each of the methods.

Installing the KB Update 4505903

It is one of the simplest ways of getting things done. All you need to do here is to install the update, and your issue will be resolved. So, here are the steps that you need to follow.

1. Check that your computer has Windows Update KB 4505903 already installed. If it is installed, then you can proceed with the process. Otherwise, you will need to take some other method to solve your issue.
2. Go to settings
3. Go to update and security
4. Go to windows update
5. Click on “Check for updates.”

Now the system will install the updates automatically, and your issue will be resolved.

Using the Group Policy

Using the Group Policy is another way of getting things done when dealing with the rasman error. Here are the steps that you need to follow

1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard and type “Run.”
2. Once the Run prompt is open, you can type “gpedit.msc”
3. Go to computer configuration
4. Go to administrative templates
5. Go to windows components
6. Go to data collection
7. Select preview builds and then allow Telemetry
8. Now open the policy and select the security level according to your needs and click on Ok and then on Apply.
9. Open the Run prompt again and run “Services.msc.”
10. The services manager will start. Now locate the service with the name “Remote Access Control Manager” and restart it.

Your issue will be solved when the service restarts.

Enabling the Telemetry in Settings

It is another very simple method to resolve the issue that you are facing. There are only a few steps that you need to follow, and those are:

1. Open the settings application.
2. Navigate to privacy and then to diagnostics and feedback
3. Select any one diagnostic data from basic or enhanced
4. Open the Run prompt and run “Services.msc.”
5. The services manager will start. Now locate the service with the name “Remote Access Control Manager” and restart it.

Right after restarting the service, the issue will be gone.

Using the Registry Editor to Enable the Telemetry

The last method of resolving the issue is by using Registry Editor. You can follow these steps here:

1. Start with opening the registry editor
2. After that go to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then SOFTWARE, then Policies, then Microsoft, then Windows, and then Data Collection.
3. Once you are at the right destination file, locate the “AllowTelemetry” entry.
4. Double click on it and enter the value for a basic, enhanced, or full(1,2,3)

In this way, you will be able to deal with the issue. Make sure that after this process, you restart the RACM by going to the Services manager, But if your problem is not solved with this method, you can search for your problem in routerhosting.com articles

Conclusion

Dealing with the RasMan error can be a very frustrating thing. However, you do not need to deal with it for a long time as it can be easily resolved within a few simple steps. We hope that you can easily get rid of the error with the method that we have mentioned above.