The measurement of quantities related to patient dose for optimisation of protection in
medical imaging with ionising radiation began more than half a century ago. Beginning in …

The majority of studies investigating the effectiveness of radiation shields focus on
procedures performed by cardiologists. These studies are, nevertheless, relevant also for …

Optimization is one of the key concepts of radiation protection in medical imaging. In
practice, it involves compromising between the image quality and dose to the patient; the …

The benefits of fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures are significant and have
established new standards in the clinical management of many diseases. Despite the …

Objectives A national retrospective survey on patient doses was performed by the French
Society of Medical physicists to assess reference levels (RLs) in interventional radiology as …

Abstract The European Directive 2013/59/Euratom requires member states of the European
Union to ensure justification and optimisation of radiological procedures and store …

Objectives To assess information reflecting radiation dose and define diagnostic reference
levels (DRL) on a European basis for four interventional radiology (IR) procedures …

Introduction Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been developed to improve
reliability of many interventional radiology (IR) procedures performed with Angio system …

Abstract Purpose Institutional (local) Diagnostic Reference Levels for Cerebral Angiography
(CA), Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography (PTC), Transarterial …

The article is part of the series of articles on radiation protection. You can find further articles
in the special section of the CVIR issue. In addition to the risks from fluoroscopic-guided …