Radiation dose to the pediatric cardiac catheterization and intervention patient

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1175-1179

  Chida, Koichi ^a   Ohno, Tadayuki ^b   Kakizaki, Shuhei ^b   Takegawa, Mika ^a   Yuuki, Hiroko ^a   Nakada, Mitsuru ^b   Takahashi, Shoki ^b   Zuguchi, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Children; Fluoroscopy; Interventional radiology; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649713176     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4466     Document Type: Article

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