| Literature DB >> 25700616 |
Jungsu Kim1,2, Deoknam Seo3,4, Inseok Choi5, Sora Nam6, Yongsu Yoon7, Hyunji Kim8,9, Jae Her10, Seonggyu Han11, Soonmu Kwon12,13, Hunsik Park14,15, Dongheon Yang16,17, Jungmin Kim18.
Abstract
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 cm(2) and a fluoroscopic time DRL of 318.0 s. The DAP DRL for percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention was 213.3 Gy cm(2), and the DRL for fluoroscopic time was 1207.5 s.Keywords: Cardiovascular centre; DICOM MPPS; Diagnostic reference levels; Order communication system; Radiation dose monitoring
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25700616 PMCID： PMC4636713 DOI： 10.1007/s10278-015-9773-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Digit Imaging ISSN： 0897-1889 Impact factor: 4.056