Skip Navigation



Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 18, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn035
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
129/1-3/91    most recent
ncn035v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Dragusin, O.
Right arrow Articles by Bosmans, H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Dragusin, O.
Right arrow Articles by Bosmans, H.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

RADIATION DOSE SURVEY IN A PAEDIATRIC CARDIAC CATHETERISATION LABORATORY EQUIPPED WITH FLAT-PANEL DETECTORS

O. Dragusin1,*, M. Gewillig2, W. Desmet2, K. Smans1,3, L. Struelens3 and H. Bosmans1

1 Department of Radiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, 49 Herestraat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
2 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, 49 Herestraat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
3 SCK·CEN, 200 Boeretang, 2400 Mol, Belgium

* Corresponding author: odragusin{at}yahoo.com

Flat-panel X-ray detectors for fluoroscopy represent a modern imaging equipment that is being implemented in paediatric cardiac catheterisation laboratories. Infants and children represent a group of patients with a high radiosensitivity. A survey of 273 (126 diagnostic and 147 therapeutic) paediatric catheterisations was performed to investigate the radiation doses delivered by the new X-ray system. Statistical parameters (75th, 50th and 25th percentiles) of dose-area product (DAP) and fluoroscopy time are reported for patients divided into six age groups: 0–30 d, >1–12 m, >1–3, >3–5, >5–10 and >10–15 y. For accurate risk estimation, effective dose (E) has been determined for all patients using the PCXMC software. For diagnostic procedures, the third quartile of E ranges from 11.3 mSv for newborns to 7 mSv for children of 10–15 y. Therapeutic procedures are more complex than diagnostic. Consequently, the third quartile of E is 22.6 mSv (0–30 d), 18.6 (>1–12 m), 13.3 (>1–3 y), 21.5 (>3–5 y), 17.8 (>5–10 y) and 34.1 mSv (>10–15 y). Dose conversion factors, which relate the DAP and E, have been estimated for each age group. The results of this study may serve as a first step in the optimisation process, in order to make full use of the dose reduction potential of flat-panel systems.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.