Re: Angiogram Dose

["c.darragh" <claire@biomed.abdn.ac.uk>]

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* Hello all,
* 
* One of my workers recently received an angiogram.  A small tube was 
* threaded up through a small incision in his leg to the heart region, a 
* radio-opaque die was injected into his blood stream, and "lots" of 
* x-rays taken.  I checked my standard references and found nothing 
* discussing the doses involved.
* 
* Does anyone know how much dose he is likely to have received?
* 
* 
* Thanks,
* 
* Jim Barnes, CHP
* Radiation Safety Officer
* Rockwell International, Rocketdyne Division
* 
* 

The dose the the patient will vary greatly according to the type of imaging
equipment used and the manner in which it is employed.  
Saying that, there have been a few paprs puplished:
Mustafa AA and Janeczek J  BJR (1989) 62 pp 838 - 842 used a phantom to 
measure organ doses.

I'm trying to find the patient studies which I know we have copies of.


Claire

Radiation Protection
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust