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1Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK.
Abstract:
A mathematical model has been developed for the assessment of patient skin doses from cardiac catheterization procedures. This uses exposure and projection data stored in the DICOM image files. Since these contain only information about the acquisition runs, a correction is needed to estimate and include the contribution from fluoroscopy. Maximum skin doses calculated by the model were found to correlate well with those measured on Kodak EDR2 film. Three methods for including the contribution from fluoroscopy were investigated, and all successfully identified patients receiving skin doses in excess of 1 Gy. It is hoped to automate this tool for routine assessment of skin doses in our cardiac catheterization laboratories.
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