Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 3, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nci750
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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.
Image quality evaluation plays a key role in the process of optimisation in radiological procedures. Image quality criteria for cardiac cine-angiography were recently agreed as part of a European Research Project, and a scoring system based on these criteria has been developed to allow an ‘objective’ measurement of the quality of cardiac angiograms. Two studies aimed at the evaluation of the methodology have been completed, demonstrating that the method can be applied to cardiac images and translated into a scoring system that yields reproducible data. Based on the results of these studies, quality criteria have been further reviewed by DIMOND III panel and the updated version is presented in this paper.
IMAGE QUALITY CRITERIA IN CARDIOLOGY
G. Bernardi 1 *,
R. Padovani 2,
L. Spedicato 1,
W. Desmet 3,
M. R. Malisan 2,
J. D. Giannuleas 4,
E. Neofotistou 5,
A. Manginas 6,
Z. Olivari 7,
J. Cosgrave 8,
F. Alfonso 9,
H. Bosmans 10,
A. Dowling 11,
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, Herestraat 49 B, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
4 Cardiology Department, Athens General Regional Hospital, 154 Mesogion Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece
5 Medical Physics Department, Athens General Regional Hospital, 154 Mesogion Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece
6 Cardiology Department, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, 356 Sygrou Avenue, 17674 Athens, Greece
7 Cardiology Department, Az. Osp. Ca Foncello, Piazza Ospedale 1, 31100 Treviso, Italy
8 Cardiology Department, St James's Hospital, P.O. Box 580 James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
9 Cardiology Department, San Carlos University Hospital, Complutense University, Madrid, 28040, Spain
10 Medical Physics Department, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Herestraat 49 B, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
11 Medical Physics Department, St. James's Hospital, P.O. Box 580 James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
12 Medical Physics Department, San Carlos University Hospital, Complutense University, Madrid, 28040, Spain
G. Bernardi, E-mail: guglbern{at}tin.it
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