IMPACT OF EC DIRECTIVE 97/43 EURATOM IN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

摘要

Interventional radiology (IR) referes tio a group of procedures of wide application nowadays in the clinical practice. The reason why IR has grown so fast in the past 20 years is due to the improvement in the materials necessary for the procedures, and to the availability of the modern diagnostic units, either using X rays or US, and MR. However, the vast majority of these procedures are performed in a radiological room under fluoroscopy, simply because the leading indications are vascular ones.