… For all the examinations in this study, this was a 0.35-mm lead-equivalent apron in either
a tabard or a “kilt and top” style dependent on operator preference. Neither apron type would …

… doses have been related to the dose–area products (DAPs) which quantify the amount of
radiation used in each examination. … significant doses to their legs from individual interventional …

… The purpose of this study is to present a strategy to define the reference dose levels for
fluoroscopic, dose-intensive examinations. This work is a part of the project of the Federal Office …

… Surveys of non-selected exams performed in the previous … technologies as they relate to
radiation dose. For the second … registration of examination data including radiation protection …

… There is an essential minimum imaging performance required for any examination, as a
fine balance exists between maximal dose reduction and adequate image quality. Close …

… or for the frequency with which skin dose exceeds a given threshold (1). A multicenter protocol
was developed to create a radiation dose database for each of 21 different interventional …

… Radiation doses for interventional examinations are generally high and therefore necessitate
dose monitoring … of medical staff becomes quite important for interventional examinations. …

… In conventional radiodiagnostic examinations, the RLs are defined as indicators of good
practice. If some hospitals are exploring their patients using radiation doses consistently higher …

… on the DRLs for the interventional procedures in the … doses of cardiac angiography (CA)
and the interventional procedures, and use them as a tool to reduce patient exposure to radiation…

… type of examination the associated patient dose was … interventional examinations are
performed annually in Switzerland (1.34 per caput) and that the associated annual collective dose …