Patient skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures: Conventional fluoroscopy versus pulsed fluoroscopy

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-121

  Chida, Koichi ^a   Fuda, Kenji ^b   Saito, Haruo ^c   Takai, Yoshihiro ^a   Takahashi, Shoki ^c   Yamada, Shogo ^c   Kohzuki, Masahiro ^c   Zuguchi, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT East Tohoku Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Catheterization; Coronary diseases; Coronary intervention; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; X RAY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN;

EID: 33846026723     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20961     Document Type: Article

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