An effective fluoroscopic shield for angiographic equipment.
The need to reduce the dose of radiation to radiologists and technologists involved in peripheral angiography at the University of Cincinnati Hospital resulted in the development of a radiation shield. This shield is lightweight, transparent, and adequately reduces the level of scatter radiation produced during fluoroscopy without interfering with the angiographer or the sterile field. The shield is effective, fairly inexpensive, and simple to construct.
D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006748:Hospital Departments; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital