作者
Andrew J Einstein, Thomas NB Pascual, Mathew Mercuri, Ganesan Karthikeyan, Joao V Vitola, John J Mahmarian, Nathan Better, Salah E Bouyoucef, Henry Hee-Seung Bom, Vikram Lele, V Peter C Magboo, Erick Alexánderson, Adel H Allam, Mouaz H Al-Mallah, Albert Flotats, Scott Jerome, Philipp A Kaufmann, Osnat Luxenburg, Leslee J Shaw, S Richard Underwood, Madan M Rehani, Ravi Kashyap, Diana Paez, Maurizio Dondi
发表日期
2015/7/7
期刊
European heart journal
卷号
36
期号
26
页码范围
1689-1696
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Aims
To characterize patient radiation doses from nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and the use of radiation-optimizing ‘best practices’ worldwide, and to evaluate the relationship between laboratory use of best practices and patient radiation dose.
Methods and results
We conducted an observational cross-sectional study of protocols used for all 7911 MPI studies performed in 308 nuclear cardiology laboratories in 65 countries for a single week in March–April 2013. Eight ‘best practices’ relating to radiation exposure were identified a priori by an expert committee, and a radiation-related quality index (QI) devised indicating the number of best practices used by a laboratory. Patient radiation effective dose (ED) ranged between 0.8 and 35.6 mSv (median 10.0 mSv). Average laboratory ED ranged from 2.2 to 24.4 mSv (median 10.4 mSv); only 91 (30%) laboratories …
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