Radiation doses to patients and cardiologists from permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation procedures

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 910-916

  Tsalafoutas, Ioannis A ^a,b   Spanodimos, Stavros G ^a   Maniatis, Petros N ^a   Fournarakis, George M ^a   Koulentianos, Elias D ^a   Tsigas, Dimitrios L ^a  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dose area product; Entrance skin dose; Pacemaker; Radiation doses

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOLOGIST; DOSIMETRY; EYE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SHIELD; THORAX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33644670546     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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