Patient radiation exposure measurements during interventional procedures: A prospective study

Health Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-40

  Efstathopoulos, Efstathios P ^a   Brountzos, Elias N ^a   Alexopoulou, Efthimia ^a   Argentos, Stylianos ^a   Kelekis, Dimitrios A ^a   Raptou, Panagiota D ^b   Kelekis, Nikolaos L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Effective dose; Medical radiation; X rays

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METHODOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; X RAY;

AGED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33745274799     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000198783.10855.51     Document Type: Article

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