Yon-Kwon Ihn, Bum-Soo Kim, Hae Woong Jeong, Sang Hyun Suh, Yoo Dong Won, Young-Jun Lee, Dong Joon Kim, Pyong Jeon, Chang-Woo Ryu, Sang-Il Suh, Dae Seob Choi, See Sung Choi, Sang Heum Kim, Jun Soo Byun, Jieun Rho, Yunsun Song, Woo Sang Jeong, Noah Hong, Sung Hyun Baik, Jeong Jin Park, Soo Mee Lim, Jung-Jae Kim, Woong Yoon
PURPOSE: To assess patient radiation doses during diagnostic and therapeutic neurointerventional procedures from multiple centers and propose dose reference level (RL). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Consecutive neurointerventional procedures, performed in 22 hospitals from December 2020 to June 2021, were retrospectively studied. We collected data from a sample of 429 diagnostic and 731 therapeutic procedures. Parameters including dose-area product (DAP), cumulative air kerma (CAK), fluoroscopic time (FT), and total number of image frames (NI) were obtained...
November 2021: Neurointervention