FDA Medical Bulletin * June 1996 * Volume 26 Number 2

NEW PUBLICATION

"A Handbook of Selected Tissue Doses for Fluoroscopic and Cineangiographic Examination of the Coronary Arteries" is now available from FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The handbook can be used to evaluate the dose of radiation absorbed in tissues of patients undergoing a broad range of cardiological diagnostic examinations and interventional procedures following a variety of clinical protocols. Clear instructions include a simple approach to nominal dose estimations with user input about technical conditions of their local system. The handbook would be of special interest to interventional radiologists, cardiologists, electrophysiologists, medical physicists, x-ray technologists, and other health care professionals in cardiac catheterization clinics.

CDRH's Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance is distributing handbooks free of charge as long as supplies last. They may be requested in writing, by telephone, or by fax from FDA, CDRH, Office of Health and Industry Programs, Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance (HFZ-220), Attention: Mr. Gene Allen, 1350 Piccard Drive, Rockville, MD 20850-4307; telephone 1-800-638-2041 (press 6, then 2 to request a document); fax 301-443-8818. Please specify your mailing address, as well as shelf number 00154 (HHS publication FDA 95-8288) if you want the report that uses millirad tissue dose and roentgen exposure or shelf number 00155 (HHS publication FDA 95-8289) if you want the report that uses units of milligray tissue dose and gray air kerma.

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