caa a22 4500 397504683 CHVBK 20180308164541.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082535 doi 0144-8420 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082535 A Review of the Background to the Decision to Write-off Fluoroscopy Equipmentin 15 Instances - and the Impact of Patient Dose and Image Quality in Practice [Elektronische Daten] [J.F. Malone, P. Cooney, H.P. Busch, K. Faulkner] Fluoroscopy units based on image intensifier/TV technology are commonplace in hospitals. They are generally fixed installations, designed in a customised fashion for barium studies of the gastrointestinal tract, neurological, cardiovascular, vascular or other investigations. The cost of such units range from about 0.4M ECU to about 1.5M ECU. In general, the performance of image intensifier/TV systems deteriorates with time and in practice the requirement to replace such systems arises in many cases before all the features of the unit are worn out. The difficulty in deciding at what point a unit needs to be replaced is heightened by virtue of the fact that there are few published norms that can be used as an absolute guideline. This paper presents a review of the considerations that, in practice, led to the write-off of 15 fluoroscopy units, in the absence of such norms. Radiation Protection Dosimetry Malone J.F. aut Cooney P. aut Busch H.P. aut Faulkner K. aut Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 249-252 0144-8420 57:1-4<249 1995 57 rpd https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Malone J.F. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cooney P. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Busch H.P. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Faulkner K. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 249-252 0144-8420 57:1-4<249 1995 57 rpd Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford