Towards the definition of Institutional diagnostic reference levels in paediatric interventional cardiology procedures in Greece
| Autor: | C. Plemmenos, Virginia Tsapaki, Sofia Kottou, N. Kollaros, Sotiria C. Apostolopoulou, I. Mastorakou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cardiology Biophysics General Physics and Astronomy 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences Kerma 0302 clinical medicine Patient age medicine Humans Fluoroscopy Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics Child Paediatric patients Greece medicine.diagnostic_test Interventional cardiology business.industry General Medicine Reference Standards Female business |
| Zdroj: | Physica Medica. 46:52-58 |
| ISSN: | 1120-1797 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejmp.2018.01.009 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to evaluate paediatric radiation doses in a dedicated cardiology hospital, with the objective of characterising patterns in dose variation. The ultimate purpose was to define Local (Institutional) Diagnostic Reference Levels (LDRLs) for different types of paediatric cardiac interventional procedures (IC), according to patient age. From a total of 710 cases performed during three consecutive years, by operators with more than 15 years of experience, the age was noted in only 477 IC procedures. The median values obtained for Fluoroscopy Time (FT), Number of Frames (N) and Kerma Area Product (PKA) by age range were 5.8 min, 1322 and 2.0 Gy.cm2 for |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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