Development of Diagnostic Reference Levels Using a Real-Time Radiation Dose Monitoring System at a Cardiovascular Center in Korea
- Authors
- Kim, Jungsu; Seo, Deoknam; Choi, Inseok; Nam, Sora; Yoon, Yongsu; Kim, Hyunji; Her, Jae; Han, Seonggyu; Kwon, Soonmu; Park, Hunsik; Yang, Dongheon; Kim, Jungmin
- Issue Date
- 12월-2015
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- DICOM MPPS; Radiation dose monitoring; Cardiovascular centre; Diagnostic reference levels; Order communication system
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING, v.28, no.6, pp.684 - 694
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING
- Volume
- 28
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 684
- End Page
- 694
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/91722
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10278-015-9773-9
- ISSN
- 0897-1889
- Abstract
- Digital cardiovascular angiography accounts for a major portion of the radiation dose among the examinations performed at cardiovascular centres. However, dose-related information is neither monitored nor recorded systemically. This report concerns the construction of a radiation dose monitoring system based on digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data and its use at the cardiovascular centre of the University Hospitals in Korea. The dose information was analysed according to DICOM standards for a series of procedures, and the formulation of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) at our cardiovascular centre represents the first of its kind in Korea. We determined a dose area product (DAP) DRL for coronary angiography of 75.6 Gy cm(2) and a fluoroscopic time DRL of 318.0 s. The DAP DRL for percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention was 213.3 Gy cm(2), and the DRL for fluoroscopic time was 1207.5 s.
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