Real-time measurement of skin radiation
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Hwang, Edward ;Gaxiola, Efrain ;Vlietstra, Ronald E. ;Brenner, Alan ;Ebersole, D
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A novel skin dose monitor was used to measure radiation incident on maximal X-ray exposed skin during 135 diagnostic and 65 interventional coronary procedures. For the diagnostic studies (n โซุโฌ 135), mean skin dose was 180 ุ 64 mGy; for PTCA (n โซุโฌ 35), it was 1021 ุ 674 mGy, single stents (n โซุโฌ 25