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ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Routine Chest Radiography.

Journal of thoracic imaging, 2016
Chest radiographs are sometimes taken before surgeries and interventional procedures on hospital admissions and outpatients. This manuscript summarizes the American College of Radiology review of the literature and recommendations on routinely performed ...
B. McComb, Jonathan H. Chung, T. Crabtree, Darel E. Heitkamp, M. Iannettoni, C. Jokerst, A. Saleh, R. Shah, R. Steiner, T. Mohammed, J. Ravenel   +10 more
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Experience with patient dosimetry and quality control online for diagnostic and interventional radiology using DICOM services.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2013
OBJECTIVE This article describes the different automatic approaches used to collect and process patient dose values and other procedural data during diagnostic and interventional radiology and discusses their benefits for clinical practice and quality ...
E. Vañó, J. I. Ten, J. M. Fernandez-Soto, R. Sanchez-Casanueva   +3 more
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A study of patient radiation doses in interventional radiological procedures.

British Journal of Radiology, 1998
Patient radiation doses received during interventional radiological procedures can be significant. To aid in the establishment of reference dose levels, a patient dose survey has been conducted of such procedures.
B J McParland
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MR-guided transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt creation with use of a hybrid radiography/MR system.

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2005
PURPOSE To evaluate the performance of a combined hybrid radiography/magnetic resonance (MR) unit to guide portal vein (PV) puncture during human transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) creation.
S. Kee, A. Ganguly, B. Daniel, Z. Wen, K. Butts, A. Shimikawa, N. Pelc, R. Fahrig, M. Dake   +8 more
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Imaging Pregnant and Lactating Patients.

Radiographics, 2015
As use of imaging in the evaluation of pregnant and lactating patients continues to increase, misperceptions of radiation and safety risks have proliferated, which has led to often unwarranted concerns among patients and clinicians.
N. Tirada, D. Dreizin, N. Khati, E. Akin, R. Zeman   +4 more
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Does digital acquisition reduce patients' skin dose in cardiac interventional procedures? An experimental study.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2004
OBJECTIVE It is necessary to reduce the exposure doses from both fluoroscopy and angiocardiography. Pulsed fluoroscopy clearly reduces patients' exposure. By contrast, whether digital acquisition reduces patients' exposure is not clear.
K. Chida, H. Saito, M. Zuguchi, K. Shirotori, S. Kumagai, Hiromi Nakayama, K. Matsubara, M. Kohzuki   +7 more
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"Turf battles" over imaging and interventional procedures in community hospitals: survey results.

Radiology, 1990
A survey of nonacademic community hospitals was conducted to ascertain the degree of control radiologists have of 38 selected imaging or imaging-related interventional procedures.
D. Levin, T. Matteucci
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Patient and staff doses in interventional X-ray procedures in Sweden.

Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2005
UNLABELLED Interventional procedures in radiology are of concern because of irradiation doses to the patients and also to the staff. A questionnaire sent to all radiology departments in Sweden showed that 11,350 procedures were performed annually 1996 ...
J. Persliden
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Radiography of the bile ducts: a symposium on the use of new modalities for diagnosis and treatment.

Radiology, 1982
New diagnostic and therapeutic techniques have enabled the radiologist to assume a significant role in the management of jaundice, whereas before he was powerless to make any contribution at all.
R. Berk, P. Cooperberg, R. P. Gold, C. Rohrmann, J. Ferrucci   +4 more
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The history of imaging in obstetrics.

Radiology, 2014
During the past century, imaging of the pregnant patient has been performed with radiography, scintigraphy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography (US).
C. Benson, P. Doubilet
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