Abstract
The interventional reference point is standardized by the International Electro technical Commission (IEC), and is adapted to adult cardiovascular studies. We examined the precision of the indicated incident dose at the interventional reference point. As a fundamental examination, we compared entrance phantom dose and incident dose at the interventional reference point. We also compared the entrance skin dose of patients with incident dose at the interventional reference point and evaluated the possibility of clinical application. Results showed that the incident dose at the interventional reference point indicated an underestimation of 0.77 times to an overestimation of 2.2 times when representing entrance surface dose. In clinical application, the incident dose at the interventional reference point calculated from the dose area product tended to overestimate by about 1.17 times the entrance skin dose measured by thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD). Furthermore, the evaluation varied according to the angles of the C-arm of the x-ray system. A interventional reference point is a useful standard for simple, real-time dose measurement by the indirect method. It is important to understand the characteristics of the indicated incident dose at the interventional reference point in clinical use.
