Estimating the Radiation Dose to the Fetus in Prophylactic Internal Iliac Artery Balloon Occlusion: Three Cases

Table 3

Simulated results of radiation exposure with the GE-OEC C-arm in the operating suite.

I.I. Size	Mode	Fetus		Skin
		Dose rate (mGy/min)	DSA  (mGy/f)	Dose rate  (mGy/min)	DSA  (mGy/f)
12 inches	Normal	5.6	2.4	42.2	22.0
	Low	2.0	1.4	16.6	11.6

The pulsed fluoroscopy rate was 8 fps with 10 sec image acquisition. Abbreviations are as in Table 1.