Toshiba Adds Dose Tracking System to Infinix-i X-Ray System for Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures

March 28, 2014—Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. (Tustin, CA) announced the introduction of its Dose Tracking System for the Toshiba Infinix-i cardiovascular x-ray systems during adult and pediatric interventional procedures. The company will feature the system, which measures radiation peak skin dose in real time, at ACC.14: The American College of Cardiology’s 63^rd annual scientific session on March 29 through 31 in Washington, DC.

Toshiba noted that the Dose Tracking System was developed in partnership with the University at Buffalo to provide hospitals with an easy-to-understand visual aid that shows how to suppress radiation exposure and optimize dose management during cardiac interventions.

According to the company, the Toshiba Dose Tracking System displays live and cumulative radiation exposure through an intuitive, color-coded indicator on a three-dimensional visual representation of the patient. The display shows where the radiation is being administered on the patient’s body in real time. This allows the clinician throughout a procedure to make quick and necessary changes to distribute the skin dose and minimize the potential risk of locally concentrated high exposure.

Neil Dashkoff, MD, who is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University at Buffalo and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York, commented in the company’s press release, “We partnered with Toshiba to develop the Dose Tracking System to further improve the safety and well-being of patients during interventional procedures. This user-friendly Dose Tracking System assists the operator to ‘spread the skin dose,’ minimizing the risk of deterministic skin injury to any given area. This is particularly important during long interventional procedures and in circumstances where the patient may return to the cath lab within a few months of the incident procedure.”