Comprehensive assessment of radiation dose inpatients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the effect of beam angulation on patient dose optimization
INTRODUCTIONIC procedures play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. PCI is a non-surgical procedure used to open significantly narrowed or blocked coronary arteries and restore arterial blood flow to the heart tissue. Over the past few decades, the number of IC procedures has been steadily increasing for the following reasons: improvement in X-ray equipment, enhanced cardiologists' clinical skill levels, and advances in stent technologies (1)(2)(3). Nowadays, interventional cardiologists perform more complex PCI procedures which were previously impossible or required open surgery.
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