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Radiation safety in the cardiac catheterization laboratory: Basic principles
Author(s) -
Balter Stephen
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1522-726x(199906)47:2<229::aid-ccd23>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac catheterization , radiation protection , medical physics , radiobiology , radiation exposure , radiation injury , interventional cardiology , radiation , radiation therapy , radiology , cardiology , nuclear medicine , physics , optics
The possibility of injury from X‐rays is only one of the risks of working in a cardiac catheterization laboratory. This article introduces information that should help understand the physics and radiobiology associated with radiation protection. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervent. 47:229–236, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.