September 1, 1999British Journal of Radiology

Real-time portal monitoring to estimate dose to skin of patients from high dose fluoroscopy.

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Population

Patients undergoing fluoroscopically-guided interventional procedures

Authors

LWLouis K. WagnerTRIUMF JPJ J PollockThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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Implication

May support real-time skin dose monitoring if errors are managed; leaves open validation before routine clinical use.

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Population

Patients undergoing fluoroscopically-guided interventional procedures

Intervention

Real-time monitoring of skin dose using a scintillation detector placed on the X-ray port

Outcome

Estimation of skin dose and identification of sources of uncertainty

Real-time portal monitoring using a scintillation detector can effectively estimate patient skin dose during high-dose fluoroscopy if inherent technical uncertainties are properly managed.

Limitations

Uncertainty in source-to-skin distance
Heel effect
Difficulty in identifying the area of skin principally exposed
Calibration error
Energy and dose rate dependence of the dosemeter

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Wagner et al. (1999) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8256bcf337522b6774b4f7 https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.72.861.10645190

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Real-time portal monitoring to estimate dose to skin of patients from high dose fluoroscopy.

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Real-time portal monitoring to estimate dose to skin of patients from high dose fluoroscopy.

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

Limitations

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