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  • Monte Carlo study of patien...
    Bhar, M.; Mora, S.; Kadri, O.; Zein, S.; Manai, K.; Incerti, S.

    Physica medica, February 2021, 2021-Feb, 2021-02-00, 20210201, 2021-02, Letnik: 82
    Journal Article

    •We assessed the patient and staff exposures in cardiac procedures using the voxellized phantoms.•We determined the HT/KAP and E/KAP coefficients considering several dose-dependent parameters.•We evaluated the effectiveness of the mobile radiation protection cabin against routine equipment.•We demonstrated the efficiency of GEANT4 to estimate the effective and organ doses in IC procedure. The aim of this study is to assess the radiation exposure of the patient and the medical staff during interventional cardiology procedures. Realistic exposure scenarios were developed using the adult reference anthropomorphic phantoms adopted by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP110Male and ICRP110Female), and the radiation transport code Geant4 (version 10.3). The calculated equivalent and effective doses were normalised by the simulated Kerma-Area Product (KAP), resulting in two conversion coefficients HT/KAP and E/KAP. To properly evaluate the risk of exposure, several dose-dependent parameters have been investigated, namely: radiological parameters (tube kilovoltage peak (kVp), type of projection, field size (FOV)), and operator positions. Four projections (AP,PA,LAO25° and RAO25°) were simulated for three X-ray energy spectra (80,100 and 120 kVp) with four different values of FOV (15×15 cm2,20×20 cm2,25×25 cm2 and 30×30 cm2). The results showed that the conversion coefficients values increase with increasing tube voltage as well as the FOV size. Recommended projection during the interventional cardiology procedures, whenever possible, should be the PA projection rather than AP projection. The most critical projection for the patient and the main operator is the RAO25° projection and the LAO25° projection respectively. The comparison of our results with the literature data showed good agreement allowing their use in the dosimetric characterization of interventional cardiology procedures.