ECG-gated coronary angiography enables submillisievert imaging in invasive cardiology.

Eberhard Kuon,Stephan B. Felix,Kerstin Weitmann,I. Buchner,Astrid Hummel,Marcus Dörr,Thorsten Reffelmann,A. Riad,Mathias C. Busch,Klaus Empen

ECG-gated coronary angiography enables submillisievert imaging in invasive cardiology.

2015

Eberhard Kuon
Stephan B. Felix
Kerstin Weitmann
I. Buchner
Astrid Hummel
Marcus Dörr
Thorsten Reffelmann
A. Riad
Mathias C. Busch
Klaus Empen

Background The median dose area products (DAP) and effective doses (ED) of patients arising from coronary angiography (CA) are considerable: According the 2013 National German Registry, they amount to 19.8 Gy × cm2 and 4.0 mSv, respectively.

Keywords:

Angiography
Effective dose (radiation)
Internal medicine
Radiology
Cardiology
Radiation protection
Dose area product
Medicine
Radiation exposure
invasive cardiology
coronary angiography

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