Radiation Dose During Complex Endovascular Procedures

Radiation exposure to the primary operator during endovascular surgical neuroradiology procedures.

Endovascular surgical neuroradiologists can receive a substantial amount of occupational radiation exposure. We evaluated the amount of radiation exposure that results from the practice of performing hand injections during digital subtraction angiography (DSA). The primary operator can significantly decrease the radiation dose by leaving the room for DSA procedures. However, the total radiation...

Factors Influencing Radiation Use During Fluoroscopic Procedures

Assessment of Patient Radiation Dose in Interventional Procedures at Shahid Madani Heart Center in Khorramabad, Iran

Introduction: Coronary angiography is the most common angiographic procedure for diagnosis and treatment of the heart diseases. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the entrance surface dose (ESD), dose area product (DAP), as well as cancer risk in interventional cardiology procedures. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted during July-December 2015 at Shahid Madani Heart Center in Khorramabad...

Reducing patient radiation dose during CT-guided procedures: demonstration in spinal injections for pain.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CT guidance may improve precision for diagnostic and therapeutic spinal injections, but it can increase patient radiation dose. This study examined the impact of reducing tube current on patient radiation exposure and the technical success for these procedures, by using axial acquisitions for short scan lengths and eliminating nonessential imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

Influence of Different Diagnostic Procedures on Radiation Dose During Peripheral Interventions

Aim: Interventional radiology procedures using ionizing radiation were frequent and become more and more complex. While determinants of radiation exposure during coronary angioplasty have been examined intensively during the last decade, available data regarding peripheral interventional procedures and especially the influence of pre-interventional diagnostic procedures on radiation exposure ar...