Radiation dose levels during interventional cardiology procedures in a tertiary care hospital

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 231-235

  Dragusin, Octavian ^a   Desmet, W ^a   Heidbuchel, H ^a   Padovani, R ^b   Bosmans, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CARDIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; DOSIMETRY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FLUOROSCOPY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 33645213720     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci754     Document Type: Article

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