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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on October 6, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 128(4):485-490; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncm435
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Patient dosimetry in interventional cardiology at the University Hospital of Osijek

Dario Faj1,*, Robert Steiner1, Dejan Trifunovic2, Zlatan Faj3, Mladen Kasabasic1, Dragan Kubelka2 and Zoran Brnic4

1 University Hospital of Osijek, J. Huttlera 4, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
2 State Office for Radiation Protection, Frankopanska 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
3 Croatian Electro Power Industry, F. Sepera 81, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
4 University Hospital Merkur, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

* Corresponding author: faj.dario{at}kbo.hr

Received January 15, 2007, amended August 8, 2007, accepted August 18, 2007

The interventional cardiology was recently implemented at the University Hospital of Osijek. Patients' absorbed doses during coronary angiography (CA) and the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedures were measured and compared with published data and international standards. All patients undergoing CA or PTCA procedures during a 1-month period were included in the study. Patients' doses are expressed in terms of dose area product (DAP) per procedure. The patients' DAPs ranged from 2.6 to 210 Gy cm2 (average of 59 Gy cm2) during CAs, and from 61 to 220 Gy cm2 (average of 120 Gy cm2) during PTCAs. Patients' doses during CAs and PTCAs at the University Hospital of Osijek are in good agreement with the published ones. In complex cases, the radiochromic dosimetry films were used to show possible dose distributions across patient's skin. The film dosimetry showed a limitation of using only DAP values for the estimation of skin injuries risk.


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