Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 3, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nci704
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1 Unità Operativa di Cardiologia, Az. Osp. S. Maria della Misericordia, Piazzale della Misericordia, 15, 33100 Udine, Italy
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
A method based on image quality criteria (QC) for cine-angiography was developed to measure the quality of cine-angiograms (CA). A series of 30 CA for left ventriculography (LV) and left and right coronary angiography (LCA, RCA) have been scored and 172 readings were obtained. Standard deviation of quality scores indicated the reproducibility of the method. Each part of CA was examined separately, giving scores for LV, LCA and RCA and a total score (TS), with clinical (C) and technical (T) criteria defined and examined separately. In 83% of the studies TS was >0.8 and with standard deviation from 0.02 to 0.21. In general, LV had a lower score and greater disagreement compared with RCA and LCA. Disagreement was greater in T, compared with C. In conclusion, these results indicate that QC, translated into a scoring system, yields reproducible data on the quality of cardiac images.
A STUDY TO VALIDATE THE METHOD BASED ON DIMOND QUALITY CRITERIA FOR CARDIAC ANGIOGRAPHIC IMAGES
G. Bernardi 1 *,
R. Padovani 2,
W. Desmet 3,
A. Peterzol 2,
J. D. Giannuleas 4,
E. Neofotistou 5,
A. Manginas 6,
Z. Olivari 7,
J. Cosgrave 8,
F. Alfonso 9,
J. Garcia 9,
H. Bosmans 10,
A. Dowling 11,
H. S. Toh 1,
G. Morocutti 1,
and
E. Vano 12
2 Unità Operativa di Fisica Sanitaria, Az. Osp. S. Maria della Misericordia, Piazzale della Misericordia, 15, 33100 Udine, Italy
3 Cardiology Department, Gasthuisberg University Hospital (GUH), Herestraat 49 B, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
4 Cardiology Department, Athens General Regional Hospital (AGRH), 154 Mesogion Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece
5 Medical Physics Department, Athens General Regional Hospital (AGRH), 154 Mesogion Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece
6 Cardiology Department, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre (OCSC), 356 Sygrou Avenue, 17674 Athens, Greece
7 Cardiology Department, Az. Osp. Ca Foncello (AOCF), Piazza Ospedale 1, 31100 Treviso, Italy
8 Cardiology Department, St James Hospital (SJH), P.O. Box 580 James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
9 Cardiology Department, San Carlos University Hospital (SCUH), Complutense University, Madrid 28040, Spain
10 Medical Physics in Radiology, Gasthuisberg University Hospital (GUH), Herestraat 49 B, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
11 Medical Physics Department, St James Hospital (SJH), P.O. Box 580 James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
12 Medical Physics Department, San Carlos University Hospital (SCUH), Complutense University, Madrid 28040, Spain
G. Bernardi, E-mail: guglbern{at}tin.it
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