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A MODEL FOR EVALUATING THE USE OF IMAGING IN IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES—POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS ON OPTIMISATION OF RADIATION PROTECTION
- Source :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 195:139-144
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021.
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Abstract
- The present study focuses on introducing the concept of optimisation and proposing a model, including evaluation of image quality, to be used in the clinical routines where image-guided intervention is being performed. The overall aim of the study was to develop a model for evaluating the use of imaging in X-ray-guided interventional procedures and its possible implications on optimisation of radiation protection. In the search for an adequate evaluation model, data from endovascular interventions of the aorta (EVAR procedures) were used. The procedure was schematically described in steps. Every imaging event was connected to the steps in the medical procedure and was also described with the purpose of the imaging event. Available technical, as well as procedural parameters, were studied and analysed. Data were collected from the X-ray equipment for 70 EVAR procedures and, out of these, 12 procedures were randomly selected to be recorded on video to understand the procedure better. It was possible to describe the EVAR procedures in a general way with explanations of the clinical purpose connected to each imaging event. Possible quality parameters of the procedure were identified for the imaging events (radiation dose, image quality). The model method still needs to be refined and will then be applied to clinical data and to other clinical procedures to test the validity.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Image quality
Computer science
Medical procedure
media_common.quotation_subject
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Radiation Dosage
Radiography, Interventional
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Image (mathematics)
03 medical and health sciences
Radiation Protection
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Medical physics
Quality (business)
media_common
Radiation
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Event (computing)
business.industry
X-Rays
Endovascular Procedures
Radiation dose
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
Model method
Fluoroscopy
Radiation protection
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17423406 and 01448420
- Volume :
- 195
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c9432ca003585145081aa06cabf21e14