Patient dose in cardiac radiology

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-25

  Stratis, Andreas I ^a   Anthopoulos, Prodromos L ^b   Gavaliatsis, Isidoros P ^b   Ifantis, Georghios P ^b   Salahas, Anastasios I ^b   Antonellis, Ioannis P ^b   Tavernarakis, Antonios G ^b   Molfetas, Michael I ^a,b  

^a Medical Physics Laboratory   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Dap meter; Interventional cardiology; Patient dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN; SKIN NECROSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; X RAY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59949101830     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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