Medical personnel and patient dosimetry during coronary angiography and intervention

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3059-3068

  Efstathopoulos, Efstathios P ^a   Makrygiannis, Stamatis S ^b   Kottou, Sofia ^a   Karvouni, Evangelia ^b   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^b   Tzanalaridou, Efthalia ^b   Raptou, Panagiota D ^c   Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^c KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOLOGY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (CA);

DOSIMETRY;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSE; OPERATOR; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

BODY BURDEN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0141447445     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/18/307     Document Type: Article

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