TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of Diagnostic Reference Levels Using a Real-Time Radiation Dose Monitoring System at a Cardiovascular Center in Korea
AU - Kim, Jungsu
AU - Seo, Deoknam
AU - Choi, Inseok
AU - Nam, Sora
AU - Yoon, Yongsu
AU - Kim, Hyunji
AU - Her, Jae
AU - Han, Seonggyu
AU - Kwon, Soonmu
AU - Park, Hunsik
AU - Yang, Dongheon
AU - Kim, Jungmin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.
PY - 2015/2/21
Y1 - 2015/2/21
N2 - Digital cardiovascular angiography accounts for a major portion of the radiation dose among the examinations performed at cardiovascular centres. However, dose-related information is neither monitored nor recorded systemically. This report concerns the construction of a radiation dose monitoring system based on digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data and its use at the cardiovascular centre of the University Hospitals in Korea. The dose information was analysed according to DICOM standards for a series of procedures, and the formulation of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) at our cardiovascular centre represents the first of its kind in Korea. We determined a dose area product (DAP) DRL for coronary angiography of 75.6 Gy cm2 and a fluoroscopic time DRL of 318.0 s. The DAP DRL for percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention was 213.3 Gy cm2, and the DRL for fluoroscopic time was 1207.5 s.
AB - Digital cardiovascular angiography accounts for a major portion of the radiation dose among the examinations performed at cardiovascular centres. However, dose-related information is neither monitored nor recorded systemically. This report concerns the construction of a radiation dose monitoring system based on digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data and its use at the cardiovascular centre of the University Hospitals in Korea. The dose information was analysed according to DICOM standards for a series of procedures, and the formulation of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) at our cardiovascular centre represents the first of its kind in Korea. We determined a dose area product (DAP) DRL for coronary angiography of 75.6 Gy cm2 and a fluoroscopic time DRL of 318.0 s. The DAP DRL for percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention was 213.3 Gy cm2, and the DRL for fluoroscopic time was 1207.5 s.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10278-015-9773-9
DO - 10.1007/s10278-015-9773-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 25700616
AN - SCOPUS:84946498373
SN - 0897-1889
VL - 28
SP - 684
EP - 694
JO - Journal of Digital Imaging
JF - Journal of Digital Imaging
IS - 6
ER -