Relationship between fluoroscopic time, dose-area product, body weight, and maximum radiation skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 774-778

  Chida, Koichi ^a   Saito, Haruo ^b   Otani, Hiroki ^b   Kohzuki, Masahiro ^b   Takahashi, Shoki ^b   Yamada, Shogo ^b   Shirato, Kunio ^b   Zuguchi, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Cardiovascular imaging; Interventional radiology; Radiation dose; Radiation injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE AREA PRODUCT; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; WEIGHT FLUOROSCOPIC TIME PRODUCT; BODY WEIGHT; HEART DISEASE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN; TIME;

BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645800787     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1653     Document Type: Article

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