The radiation dose for a CT fluoroscopy is about half that for conventional fluoroscopy to guide epidural steroid injections, however, the dose is substantially more than conventional fluoroscopy when ...

March 6, 2012 (Vienna, Austria) — The use of ultrasound to guide transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TF-ESIs) for the treatment of cervical radiculopathy is an effective radiation-free ...

Injection of local anesthetic into part of the trigeminal nerve under fluoroscopic guidance is being used to treat migraine and other headaches. A new study showed that numbing the sphenopalatine ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Evidence of the effectiveness and safety of CT-guided, lumbar transforaminal injection of steroids in the treatment of radicular pain is scant, according to a presenter here. Nikolai ...

In recent years, minimally invasive medical interventions performed under fluoroscopy and other types of imaging guidance have been extensively replacing the open surgery for many medical ...

In the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule of the Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) bundled fluoroscopic guidance into epidural injections and stated that ...

Welcome to Radiation protection in fluoroscopy guided interventional procedures!This course consists of six webinars organized by the IAEA in the period of 2016-2019. Each webinar is addressing a ...