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(Circulation. 2001;104:1779.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

Clinical Investigation and Reports

Real-Time Quantification and Display of Skin Radiation During Coronary Angiography and Intervention

Ad den Boer, BS; Pim J. de Feijter, MD; Patrick W. Serruys, MD; Jos R.T.C. Roelandt, MD

From the Thoraxcenter, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Correspondence to Ad den Boer, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter BD 428, PO Box 2040, 3000 GR Rotterdam, Netherlands. E-mail denboer{at}card.azr.nl

Background— Radiographically guided investigations may be associated with excessive radiation exposure, which may cause skin injuries. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a system that measures in real time the dose applied to each 1-cm² area of skin, taking into account the movement of the x-ray source and changes in the beam characteristics. The goal of such a system is to help prevent high doses that might cause skin injury.

Methods and Results— The entrance point, beam size, and dose at the skin of the patient were calculated by use of the geometrical settings of gantry, investigation table, and x-ray beam and an ionization chamber. The data are displayed graphically. Three hundred twenty-two sequential cardiac investigations in adult patients were analyzed. The mean peak entrance dose per investigation was 0.475 Gy to a mean skin area of 8.2 cm². The cumulative KERMA-area product per investigation was 52.2 Gy/cm² (25.4 to 99.2 Gy/cm²), and the mean entrance beam size at the skin was 49.2 cm². Twenty-eight percent of the patients (90/322) received a maximum dose of <1 Gy to a small skin area (6 cm²), and 13.5% of the patients (42/322) received a maximum dose of >2 Gy.

Conclusions— Monitoring of the dose distribution at the skin will alert the operator to the development of high-dose areas; by use of other gantry settings with nonoverlapping entrance fields, different generator settings, and extra collimation, skin lesion can be avoided.

Key Words: radiography • catheterization • dosage

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