Radiation exposure to cardiologists performing interventional cardiology procedures

M Delichas, K Psarrakos… - European journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
… Medical doctors, who practice interventional cardiology, receive a noticeable radiation dose.
In this study, we measured the radiation dose to 9 cardiologists during 144 procedures (72 …

Radiation dose measurements to the interventional cardiologist using an electronic personal dosemeter

V Tsapaki, S Kottou, S Patsilinakos… - Radiation protection …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
cardiologist in an Interventional Cardiology (IC) Laboratory of a busy cardiac centre and how
the results could help in the evaluation of radiation … Patient dose was measured with a dose-…

Patient radiation doses in interventional cardiology procedures

I Pantos, G Patatoukas, DG Katritsis… - Current cardiology …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
… for skin-dose measurements in interventional radiology: Validation of a dosimetric procedure
on a sample of patients undergone interventional cardiology. Phys Med 2006; 22: 105-10. …

Occupational radiation doses in interventional cardiology: a 15-year follow-up

E Vano, L Gonzalez, JM Fernandez… - The British journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
radiation doses of interventional cardiologists over 15 years and assesses action undertaken
to optimize radiation … The dose measured by the dosemeter worn under the apron was 42 …

Staff radiation doses in interventional cardiology: correlation with patient exposure

E Vano, C Ubeda, F Leyton, P Miranda, L Gonzalez - Pediatric cardiology, 2009 - Springer
… In pediatric interventional cardiology, cardiologists need to … biplane systems increases the
scatter radiation. Occupational … From these values and the radiation field size at the position …

Patient radiation doses in paediatric interventional cardiology procedures: a review

RW Harbron, S Dreuil, MO Bernier… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… Around half of reviewed publications did not mention calibration of dose measuring equipment
or quality assurance measures. Recorded P KA figures are subject to an uncertainty of …

Influence of patient thickness and operation modes on occupational and patient radiation doses in interventional cardiology

E Vano, L Gonzalez, JM Fernandez… - Radiation protection …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… In this paper, scatter dose values measured at the typical position of the cardiologist during
procedures are reported for different patient thicknesses and for the different operational …

Radiation dose and image quality for paediatric interventional cardiology

E Vano, C Ubeda, F Leyton… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… modes and to avoid errors in dose measurements, images of the test object (to evaluate
image quality) were recorded simultaneously with the dose measurements. The acquisition and …

Comparison of radiation dose to patient and staff for two interventional cardiology units: a phantom study

A Mesbahi, P Mehnati, A Keshtkar… - Radiation protection …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… the patient and staff dose during routine interventional cardiology procedures for an
image … In the present study, scattered radiation measurements showed that the operator-received …

A summary of recommendations for occupational radiation protection in interventional cardiology

A Duran, SK Hian, DL Miller, JL Heron… - Catheterization and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… The radiation dose received by interventional cardiologists can vary … doses. There is particular
concern regarding occupational … Measurements of occupational doses are obtained using …