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CONTEMPORARY RADIATION DOSES IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY: A NATIONWIDE STUDY OF PATIENT SKIN DOSES IN FINLAND
Tekijät: Järvinen Jukka, Sierpowska Joanna, Siiskonen Teemu, Husso Minna, Järvinen Hannu, Kiviniemi Tuomas, Rissanen Tuomas, Lindholm Carita, Matikka Hanna, Larjava Heli, Mäkelä Timo, Strengell Satu, Eskola Markku, Parviainen Teuvo, Hallinen Elina, Pirinen Markku, Kivelä Antti, Teräs Mika
Kustantaja: Oxford Academic
Julkaisuvuosi: 2020
Journal: Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Lehden akronyymi: Rad Prot Dos
Vuosikerta: 188
Numero: 2
Aloitussivu: 181
Lopetussivu: 190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncz273
In contemporary interventional cardiology, for typical elderly patients, the most severe radiation-related harm to patients can be considered to come from skin exposures. In this paper, maximum local skin doses in cardiological procedures are explored with Gafchromic film dosimetry. Film and reader calibrations and reading were performed at the Secondary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory of the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), and data were gathered from seven hospitals in Finland. As alert levels for early transient erythema, 200 Gycm2 kerma area product (KAP) and 2000 mGy air kerma levels for transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI) procedures are proposed. The largest doses were measured in TAVI (4158.8 mGy) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) (941.68 mGy). Accuracies of the GE DoseWatch and Siemens CareMonitor skin dose estimates were reasonable, but more results are needed to reliably assess and validate the tools’ capabilities and reliabilities. Uncertainty of the Gafchromic dosimetry was estimated as 9.1% for a calibration with seven data points and 19.3% for a calibration with five data points.