Dose constraints to the individual annual doses of exposed workers in the medical sector
| Autor: | Vasiliki Kamenopoulou, P. Dimitriou, G. Drikos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Occupational group Greece medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Technician Brachytherapy Allied Health Personnel Occupational disease Radiotherapy Dosage Interventional radiology General Medicine Dose distribution medicine.disease Dose constraints Radiation Protection Occupational Exposure medicine Humans Dosimetry Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics Radiation protection business |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Radiology. 37:204-208 |
| ISSN: | 0720-048X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0720-048x(00)00286-2 |
| Popis: | The study is an attempt, within the process of the optimization of radiation protection, to propose constraints to the individual annual doses of classified workers employed in the medical sector of ionizing radiation applications in Greece. These exposed workers were grouped according to their specialties, i.e. medical doctors, technicians and nurses and their occupational category with common or similar tasks, such as diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. The last 5 years' annual dose distributions of these occupational groups, coming from the National Dose Registry Information System (NDRIS) of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) were analyzed. The proposed dose constraints (DCs) were set at levels, below which the annual doses of the 70 or 75% of the exposed workers per category are expected to be included. At the present stage the derived values may be considered achievable ceiling values referring to acceptably applied practices rather than to optimized ones, taking into account social and economic criteria. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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