Clinical benchmarking of a commercial software for skin dose estimation in cardiac, abdominal, and neurology interventional procedures.

Background: Radiation exposure from interventional radiology (IR) could lead to potential risk of skin injury in patients. Several dose monitoring software like radiation dose monitor (RDM) were developed to estimate the patient skin dose (PSD) distribution in IR.

Purpose: This study benchmarked the accuracy of RDM software in estimating PSD as compared to GafChromic film baseline in-vivo measurements on patients during cardiac, abdominal, and neurology IR procedures.