Clarifying and visualizing sources of staff-received scattered radiation in interventional procedures

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Chida, Koichi ^a   Takahashi, Takeshi ^b   Ito, Daisuke ^c   Shimura, Hirotaka ^c   Takeda, Ken ^a   Zuguchi, Masayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluoroscopy; Interventional radiology; Radiation dose; Radiation protection; Radiation safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAL STAFF; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 79960472477     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.6396     Document Type: Article

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