Estimation of children's radiation dose from cardiac catheterisations, performed for the diagnosis or the treatment of a congenital heart disease using TLD dosimetry and Monte Carlo simulation

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-261

  Yakoumakis, E N ^a   Gialousis, G I ^a   Papadopoulou, Despina ^a   Makri, Triantafillia ^a   Pappouli, Zografia ^a   Yakoumakis, Nikolaos ^a   Papagiannis, Panayotis ^a   Georgiou, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EFFECTIVE DOSE; HEART DISEASE; INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEPTAL DEFECT; SURFACE DOSE; SURFACE RADIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT;

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; X RAY;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; X-RAYS;

EID: 70349310021     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/29/2/011     Document Type: Article

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