Radiation dose and mortality risk to children undergoing therapeutic interventional cardiology.

CONCLUSION: The current study provides overall data on the time, PSD, E, and lifetime mortality risk for pediatric therapeutic interventional cardiology. Radio frequency ablation showed the highest radiation risk. PMID: 25024440 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024440?dopt=Abstract

Source: Acta Radiologica - July 14, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Song S, Liu C, Zhang M Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research