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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 20, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn010
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EFFECTS OF RADIOLOGISTS' SKILL AND EXPERIENCE ON PATIENT DOSES IN INTERVENTIONAL EXAMINATIONS

Dogan Bor1,*, Tanzer Sancak2, Türkay Toklu1, Turan Olgar1 and Selmin Ener1

1 Department of Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, 06100 Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey
2 Department of Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ibni Sina Hospital, Ankara University, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

* Corresponding author: bor{at}eng.ankara.edu.tr

In this study, effects of radiologists' skill and experience on patient doses were investigated. Dose–area product and entrance surface doses of two groups of patients, one examined by a number of junior radiologists and another one by a senior radiologist, have been compared for the diagnostic interventional examinations of cerebral and lower limbs. Collimation of the X-ray beam and shortening the fluoroscopy times by the senior radiologist considerably reduced the patient doses for interventional cerebral examinations.


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