Fluoroscopy-guided procedures in cardiology: Is patient exposure being reduced over time?

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 271-274

  Samara, E T ^a   Aroua, A ^a   Stauffer, J C ^b   Bochud, F ^a   Verdun, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EUROPE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

BODY BURDEN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 77953351700     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp307     Document Type: Article

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