Verification of Caregraph (trademark) Peak Skin Dose Data Using Radiochromic Film

Abstract

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Reference air kerma and kerma‐area product as estimators of peak skin dose for fluoroscopically guided interventions

“…17 For this analysis, skin dose values recorded by the CAREGRAPH software were corrected to account for systematic errors in the software calculations and to incorporate the effect of back scatter, using conversion factors established previously. 18…”