An overview on extremity dosimetry in medical applications

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_E0FD441EB9C4
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
An overview on extremity dosimetry in medical applications
Périodique
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Vanhavere F., Carinou E., Donadille L., Ginjaume M., Jankowski J., Rimpler A., Sans Merce M.
ISSN
0144-8420 (Print)
ISSN-L
0144-8420
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Volume
129
Numéro
1-3
Pages
350-355
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Some activities of EURADOS Working Group 9 (WG9) are presently funded by the European Commission (CONRAD project). The objective of WG9 is to promote and co-ordinate research activities for the assessment of occupational exposures to staff at workplaces in interventional radiology (IR) and nuclear medicine. For some of these applications, the skin of the fingers is the limiting organ for individual monitoring of external radiation. Therefore, sub-group 1 of WG9 deals with the use of extremity dosemeters in medical radiation fields. The wide variety of radiation field characteristics present in a medical environment together with the difficulties in measuring a local dose that is representative for the maximum skin dose, usually with one single detector, makes it difficult to perform accurate extremity dosimetry. Sub-group 1 worked out a thorough literature review on extremity dosimetry issues in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography, interventional radiology and interventional cardiology and brachytherapy. Some studies showed that the annual dose limits could be exceeded if the required protection measures are not taken, especially in nuclear medicine. The continuous progress in new applications and techniques requires an important effort in radiation protection and training.
Mots-clé
Extremities/radiation effects, Occupational Exposure/analysis, Radiation Monitoring/methods, Radiation Protection/methods
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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