Does digital acquisition reduce patients' skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures? An experimental study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1111-1114

  Chida, Koichi ^a   Saito, Haruo ^b   Zuguchi, Masayuki ^a   Shirotori, Kazutoshi ^a   Kumagai, Shinsaku ^a   Nakayama, Hiromi ^a   Matsubara, Kana ^a   Kohzuki, Masahiro ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CINEANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN;

EID: 7944234005     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.4.1831111     Document Type: Article

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