Patient radiation doses in interventional cardiology procedures

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Pantos, Ioannis ^a,b   Patatoukas, Georgios ^b   Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Efstathopoulos, Efstathios ^b,c  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Interventional cardiology; Patient dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 65649137335     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340309787048059     Document Type: Review

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