Patient skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures: Conventional fluoroscopy versus pulsed fluoroscopy

Chida, Koichi; Fuda, Kenji; Saito, Haruo; Takai, Yoshihiro; Takahashi, Shoki; Yamada, Shogo; Kohzuki, Masahiro; Zuguchi, Masayuki

doi:10.1002/ccd.20961

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Patient skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures: Conventional fluoroscopy versus pulsed fluoroscopy

Published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions • Nov 30, 2006

Authors:

Koichi Chida

Kenji Fuda

Haruo Saito

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether pulsed fluoroscopy reduces a patient's exposure compared with the exposure owing to conventional (continuous) fluoroscopy, we simulated the skin radiation doses of patients at cardiac catheterization facilities with various X-ray systems used in fluoroscopically gu...

Subject

Fluoroscopy

Medicine

Radiation exposure

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