Patient-specific dose and radiation risk estimation in pediatric cardiac catheterization

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-89

  Bacher, Klaus ^a   Bogaert, Evelien ^a   Lapere, Régine ^a   De Wolf, Daniel ^b   Thierens, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Pediatrics; Radiation

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 11244304718     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000151098.52656.3A     Document Type: Article

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