Renato Padovani

TL;DR: This guideline is intended to serve as a companion to that document and provides guidance to help minimize occupational radiation dose and to provide advice and guidance to interventional radiologists who perform procedures with the guidance of ionizing radiation and their staff.

TL;DR: The European DIMOND approach to defining reference levels (RLs) for radiation doses delivered to patients during two types of invasive cardiology procedures, namely coronary angiography and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the medical physics relevant to occupational radiation safety and provide advice and guidance to interventional radiologists who perform procedures with the guidance of ionizing radiation and their staff.

TL;DR: This document provides recommendations for occupational radiation protection for physicians and other staff in the interventional suite, and has been endorsed by the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology, the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, the Latin American Society of interventional cardiology, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

TL;DR: Because equipment performance and set-up are the factors contributing to patient dose variability, entrance surface air kerma for fluoroscopy, 13 mGy min(-1), and image acquisition, 0.10 mGy per frame, have been proposed in the set of RLs.