Radiation exposure of interventional cardiologists during coronary angiography: evaluation by phantom measurement and computer simulation

During interventional cardiological procedures, operators are exposed to patients’ scatter radiation. Therefore, we measured the radiation exposure of the operator’s eyeball, thyroid, and chest wall during angiography. We used the optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter in the anthropomorphic phantom and developed Monte Carlo simulations using the Korean human voxel phantom. At 15 frames/s, the radiation dose of the operator’s right eyeball...