Radiation exposure to the paediatric patient from cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Radiology
- Vol. 53 (626) , 100-106
- https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-53-626-100
Abstract
Thermoluminescent dosimetry was used to study the dose received by 50 consecutive pediatric patients. The average thyroid exposure was 7.7 R and the average gonad exposure 0.35 R. The relative contribution of fluoroscopy and serial film radiography was calculated and over 70% of the thyroid dose comes from the use of the roll film changer. The significance of high thyroid dose was discussed. Serial film changers evidently no longer have a primary role in the study of congenital heart disease.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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