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Do fluoroscopy systems influence the level of scatter radiation exposure during endoscopic procedures?
Author(s) -
Bang Ji Young,
Hawes Robert H.,
Varadarajulu Shyam
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/den.12479
Subject(s) - fluoroscopy , medicine , imaging phantom , dosimeter , image quality , radiation exposure , nuclear medicine , medical physics , radiology , lead apron , dosimetry , computer science , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence
Radiation exposure (RE) has biological consequences and the risk is cumulative. There is increasing awareness regarding the risks of RE to patients and providers from endoscopic procedures that use fluoroscopic guidance. A major source of RE during fluoroscopy is radiation scattering from the patient as the incident beam makes contact with the body surface. Although the simplest way to reduce RE is by decreasing fluoroscopy time, this may not always be possible. We compared the performance of two fluoroscopy systems, fixed Eview (Omega Digestive Endoscopy 2015; 27: 627–632 Letters, Techniques and Images 629