Level of patient and operator dose in the largest cardiac centre in Greece

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 71-73

  Tsapaki, V ^a   Patsilinakos, S ^a   Voudris, V ^b   Magginas, A ^b   Pavlidis, S ^b   Maounis, T ^b   Theodorakis, G ^b   Koutelou, M ^b   Vrantza, T ^c   Nearchou, M ^c   Nikolaki, N ^c   Kollaros, N ^b   Kyrozi, E ^b   Kottou, S ^d   Karaiskos, P ^d   Neofotistou, E ^e   Cokkinos, D ^b  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CARDIOLOGIST; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FOOT; GREECE; HAND; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; CARDIOLOGY; CATHETER ABLATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART FUNCTION TEST; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOLOGY; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FLUOROSCOPY; GREECE; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 55249123159     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn006     Document Type: Article

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