RE: Interventional Cardiologist Absorbed Dose

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Carol,

Try "Study of Radiation Doses to Personnel in a Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory," Health Physics, April 1996, Vol. 70, No. 4, Pp 567 to 563.  Another, which I do not yet have. is "An Investigation of the Radiation Dose to Staff During Cardiac Radiological Studies," British Journal of Radiology, 58, 419-428 (1989).

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)     

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol S. Marcus [mailto:csmarcus@ucla.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:09 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Interventional Cardiologist Absorbed Dose

Dear Radsafers:

Does anyone out there have some ball park values for deep dose equivalent (DDE) to interventional cardiologists expressed as "mrem DDE per fluoro-minute"?  This would be DDE outside the lead apron.

Many thanks in advance.

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
<csmarcus@ucla.edu>