Exposure to ionising radiation is an important healthcare concern, primarily due to the potential increased lifetime risk of malignancy. This is important for patients and staff who are exposed to ionising radiation during diagnostic imaging or interventional procedures. Ionising radiation refers to...

Fluoroscopy-guided catheter angiography is an interventional procedure that uses percutaneous access of arteries with needles and catheters to inject contrast for vessel opacification.[1] This procedure may be diagnostic or therapeutic. While some providers use angiography as a general term to inclu...

Background: Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) still causes a significant amount of radiation exposure for patients and operators. In February 2017, the Azurion system was introduced, a new-generation fluoroscopy image acquisition and processing system. Radiation exposure in patients undergoing ICA...

Purpose We applied a low-dose fluoroscopic protocol in routine diagnostic cerebral angiography and evaluated the feasibility of the protocol. Materials and Methods We retrospectively reviewed a total of 60 patients who underwent diagnostic cerebral angiography for various neurovascular diseas...

Interventional cardiology involves catheter-based treatment of heart disease, generally through fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures. Patients can be subject to considerable radiation dose due to prolonged fluoroscopy time and radiographic exposure, and therefore efforts to minimize pat...

Purpose The primary goal was to evaluate local dose level for fluoroscopically guided invasive cardiac procedures in a high-volume activity catheterization laboratory, using automatic data registration with minimal impact on operator workload. The secondary goal was to highlight the relationship be...

Objectives: Identifying the distributions and determinants of fluoroscopy time for invasive coronary angiography (ICA) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Background: ICA and PCI are significant contributors to radiation exposure from medical imaging in the US. Fluoroscopy time is a po...

BACKGROUND Ischemic stroke is an entity with high incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates. Carotid artery stenosis is an important and independent risk factor for ischemic stroke. The three current approaches for treating carotid artery stenosis are drug treatment, carotid endarterectomy (CEA), c...