Estimating Effective Dose to Pediatric Patients Undergoing Interventional Radiology Procedures Using Anthropomorphic Phantoms and MOSFET Dosimeters

Abstract

Patient doses during interventional procedures vary significantly depending on the type of procedure. User-friendly look-up tables may provide a helpful tool for health care providers in estimating effective doses for an individual procedure.

Direct Effective Dose Calculations in Pediatric Fluoroscopy-Guided Abdominal Interventions with Rando-Alderson Phantoms – Optimization of Preset Parameter Settings

“…In a study using pediatric anthropomorphic phantoms Miksys et al showed that abdominal interventions carry the highest effective dose burden compared with chest and head/neck mock interventional procedures[21]. Effective dose results were in a range of 0.14 to 0.31mSv per minute of fluoroscopy in posterior-anterior beam direction, which is about one order of magnitude higher compared to our results.…”

Long-term burden of care and radiation exposure in survivors of esophageal atresia

“…the introduction of pulsed fluoroscopy capability). For the majority of studies and procedures, dose assignment was based on institutional data applicable to the time period of our study [6][7][8][9][10]. Published values from the pediatric radiology literature [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] were used for the small number of examinations for which institutional data were not available.…”

Diagnostic radiation exposure in children with spinal dysraphism: an estimation of the cumulative effective dose in a cohort of 135 children from The Netherlands

“…Although we could not make an estimate for all age categories (blank fields in table 3), this did not pose a problem since the reason for the lack of data was the lack of patients in these age categories and for our study these data were not required. For cranial fluoroscopy procedures we used effective dose per minute estimates (1-year-old 0.028 mSv/min; 5-year-old 0.034 mSv/min; 10-year-old 0.022 mSv/min, after Miksys et al 24) and estimated total beam-on time of these procedures to be maximum 0.5 min.…”