Cardiac catheterisation: radiation doses and lifetime risk of malignancy
- 1 March 2007
- Vol. 93 (3) , 370-371
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2006.098731
Abstract
UK legislation does not give dose limits for patients undergoing medical diagnostic exposures, but requires adherence to the “as low as reasonably practicable” principle, and comparison of doses with diagnostic reference levels for common procedures. Published data for patient exposure, absorbed dose, effective dose and risk of malignancy from the different specific diagnostic cardiac catheterisation procedures are incomplete, and there are no national diagnostic reference levels for individual procedures.Keywords
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