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Abstract
Fluoroscopically Guided Interventions (FGIs) are procedures which use real-time x-ray imaging to guide surgeries. Due to the complexity of these cases, radiation doses can be high enough to cause skin injury. It is a medical physicist's role to provide guidance on Substantial Radiation Dose Levels (SRDLs) and trigger physician follow-up if a patient is at risk of radiation injury. This research focused on dose modeling and calculation from Radiation Dose Structured Report (RDSR) data, with the eventual goal of developing calibration factors to improve PSD calculation accuracy. This project involved two stages: (1) an interactive MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) was made to validate the beam and table movement, (2) clinical data was used to generate a skin dose map.