Akshay Khandelwal, M.D., director of medical operations at the Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute, Detroit, and associate professor of cardiology at Wayne State University, explains how his center has reduced X-ray radiation dose in the cardiac catheterization labs.
Watch the related VIDEO: Reducing Cath Lab Radiation Dose at Henry Ford Hospital — Discussion with Nicolas Bevins, Ph.D., vice chair, physics and research, and Jessica Harrington, RCIS, Henry Ford Hospital.
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(Editor's note - this video was originally published in November 2018 and was revised September 2019)