title: Patient skin dosimetry in interventional cardiology in the Czech Republic.
abstract: In this study, skin dosimetry of patients undergoing interventional cardiology procedures is presented. Three hospitals were included. Two methods were used for skin dosimetry--radiochromic dosimetry films and reconstruction of skin dose distribution based on examination protocol. Maximum skin doses (MSD) obtained from both methods were compared for 175 patients. For patients for whom the film MSD was >1 Gy, the reconstruction MSD differed from the film MSD in the range of ± 50 % for 83 % of patients. For remaining patients, the difference was higher and it was caused by longer fluoroscopy time. For 59 patients for whom the cumulative dose was known, the cumulative dose was compared with the film MSD. Skin dosimetry with radiochromic films is more accurate than the reconstruction method, but films do not include X-ray fields from lateral projections whilest reconstructions do.
authors.affiliation: National Radiation Protection Institute, Bartoskova 28, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic. lucie.sukupova@suro.cz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sukupova
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Novak
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kala
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cervinka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stasek
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D005373:Film Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012867:Skin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000528:radiation effects*