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[en] The number of radiology and cardiology interventional procedures has significantly increased in recent years due to better diagnostic equipment resulting in an increase in radiation dose to the staff and patients. The assessment of staff doses was performed for cardiac catheterization and for three other non-cardiac procedures. The scattered radiation distribution resulting from the cardiac catheterization procedure was measured prior to the staff dose measurements. Staff dose measurements included those of the left shoulder, eye, thyroid and hand doses of the cardiologist. In non-cardiac procedures doses to the hands of the radiologist were measured for nephrostomy, fistulogram and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty procedures. Doses to the radiologist or cardiologist were found to be relatively high if correct protection was not observed. (author)
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); European Commission, Brussels (Belgium); Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC (United States); World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland); 916 p; Mar 2001; p. 343-346; International conference on radiological protection of patients in diagnostic and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy; Malaga (Spain); 26-30 Mar 2001; IAEA-CN--85-51; ISSN 1563-0153;
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