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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on March 29, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch486
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received September 7, 2004
Revised January 12, 2005
Accepted March 7, 2005

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

SKIN DOSES TO PATIENTS UNDERGOING CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN A GREEK HOSPITAL

Miltiadis G. Delichas 1*, Kyriakos Psarrakos 1, Georgios Giannoglou 2, Elisabeth Molyvda-Athanasopoulou 1, Konstantinos Hatziioannou 3, and Emmanouil Papanastassiou 1

1 Medical Physics Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
2 Department of Cardiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54006, Greece
3 Medical Physics Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, N. Efkarpia, Thessaloniki 56403, Greece

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Miltiadis G. Delichas, E-mail: delh{at}teilar.gr


  Abstract

In this study, the skin dose (SD) to patients undergoing coronary angiography (CA) were measured with thermoluminescence dosemeters (TLD) attached to various anatomical locations on the patient's skin during 93 CA procedures in a Greek hospital. The dose-area product (DAP) for every radiological projection was also measured for each procedure. The SD values were measured to be in the range 2.4-427.5 mGy, lower than the 2 Gy dose threshold for transient erythema. No general correlation was observed between the SD and the total DAP.


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