Eye lens dosimetry in interventional cardiology: results of staff dose measurements and link to patient dose levels
| Autor: | Vojislav Antic, Danijela Arandjic, S. Aleksandric, Olivera Ciraj-Bjelac, Madan M. Rehani, M. Ostojic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Radiography Dose profile Radiation Dosage Radiography Interventional Risk Assessment 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Radiation Monitoring Occupational Exposure Lens Crystalline Medical Staff Hospital Humans Medicine Dosimetry Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical physics Eye lens Radiation Local practice Radiological and Ultrasound Technology Interventional cardiology business.industry Cumulative dose Angiography Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Patient dose Radiology business Serbia |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rpd/ncs236 |
| Popis: | Workers involved in interventional cardiology procedures receive high eye lens dose if protection is not used. Currently, there is no suitable method for routine use for the measurement of eye dose. Since most angiography machines are equipped with suitable patient dosemeters, deriving factors linking staff eye doses to the patient doses can be helpful. In this study the patient kerma-area product, cumulative dose at an interventional reference point and eye dose in terms of Hp(3) of the cardiologists, nurses and radiographers for interventional cardiology procedures have been measured. Correlations between the patient dose and the staff eye dose were obtained. The mean eye dose was 121 µSv for the first operator, 33 µSv for the second operator/nurse and 12 µSv for radiographer. Normalised eye lens doses per unit kerma-area product were 0.94 µSv Gy⁻¹ cm⁻² for the first operator, 0.33 µSv Gy⁻¹ cm⁻² for the second operator/nurse and 0.16 µSv Gy⁻¹ cm⁻² for radiographers. Statistical analysis indicated that there is a weak but significant (p < 0.01) correlation between the eye dose and the kerma-area product for all three staff categories. These values are based on a local practice and may provide useful reference for other studies for validation and for wider utilisation in assessing the eye dose using patient dose values. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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