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Medical Park Izmir Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Izmir, Turkey
Caner Topaloglu is currently working as Professor at Department of Cardiology, research interest include improvement of cardiac imagaing by protective techniques like special exposure settings, adaptive copper filter, longer line, shielding and pedaling techniques have been shown to be seriously effective on radiation protection.
Research
The Comparison of Radiation Exposure between Application of Ultralow Dose Radiation Settings and Conventional Radiation Settings in Coronary CTO Intervention
Author(s): Hakan Gocer*, Mohammed Abuskr, Emre Erturk, Caner Topaloglu and Ertugrul Ercan
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to measure the cumulative doses and dose-area products exposed in chronic totally occluded coronary (CTO) interventions performed under ultra-low dose radiation procedure.
Materials and Methods: 47 patients were included to our study. Three experienced CTO operators and team were performed these procedures, one of whom was working with ALARA principles (Operator Group 1, 31 (66%) patients), the remaining operators were working in standard cine mode (Operator Group 2, 16 (34%) patients). Total fluoroscopy time, number of cineangiographic runs, cumulative dose, the dose area product were reviewed for each procedure. ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) modifications were used by Operator 1, such as reduced pulse width and exposure dose, filter protection, a longer lines for Y connector, pedaling tech.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2329-9495.20.8.238