Skin dosimetry of patients during interventional cardiology procedures in the Czech Republic

• Authors: Lucie Sukupova , Leos Novak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study is to determine distribution of air kerma-area product, fluoro time and number of frames values for the two most frequent procedures in the interventional cardiology, to reconstruct skin dose distributions for some patients undergoing coronarography and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedures. Patient dose data were obtained from X-ray unit dose monitoring software report from one hospital and the reconstructions were performed in MATLAB. Dependence of maximum skin dose on air kerma-area product, fluoro time and number of frames was determined to assess trigger levels of these quantities, which can indicate possible exceeding of the 2 Gy skin dose threshold.

Keywords

EN

coronarography; PTCA; kerma-area product; skin dose distribution; maximum skin dose

• Publisher: Versita
• Journal: Polish Journal of Medical Physics And Engineering
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 217-225

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2008

online

14 - 4 - 2009

Contributors

author

Lucie Sukupova

author

Leos Novak

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10013-008-0018-9