The value of digital personal dosemeters in angiography/interventional radiology: preliminary experience.
New interventional procedures tend to involve longer screening times than were hitherto used in radiology. A careful audit of technique and shielding facilities needs to be performed to ensure that patient and operator doses are optimised. This paper explores the use of digital dosemeters to evaluate operator dose. Equipment related parameters, e.g. screening time, dose-area-product (DAP) readings, were not found to be strongly correlated to operator dose. The real time display on the electronic dosemeter is a non-intrusive indicator of the efficacy of operator protection strategies.
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Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland. mcasey@st-vincents.ie
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D000792:Angiography; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015642:Radiology, Interventional; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry