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Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study
There has been an increase in positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging procedures, and medical workers involved in PET/CT are at increased risk of occupational exposure. Data on extremity dose exposure are limited globally. The current study aimed to evaluate the occupatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10615540/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37904454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000035501 |
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author | Erdemir, Rabiye Uslu Abuzaid, Mohamed Mahmoud Cavli, Baris Tekin, Huseyin Ozan Elshami, Wiam |
author_facet | Erdemir, Rabiye Uslu Abuzaid, Mohamed Mahmoud Cavli, Baris Tekin, Huseyin Ozan Elshami, Wiam |
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description | There has been an increase in positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging procedures, and medical workers involved in PET/CT are at increased risk of occupational exposure. Data on extremity dose exposure are limited globally. The current study aimed to evaluate the occupational radiation dose for extremities for medical workers (nurses, radiographers/radiologic technologists, and nuclear medicine physicians) working in PET/CT scanners at 5 large hospitals in Turkey. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and Thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) ring dosimeters were used to measure equivalent dose values. Hospitals 1, 2, and 5 used OSL, and 3 and 4 used TLD. A total of 502 readings were obtained from 55 workers. In millisievert (mSv), the average annual effective dose for all workers was 14.5 ± 17.7 (0.2–157.2). A radiography technologist received a maximum dose of 157.21. Nurses received the highest average annual effective dose (15.2 ± 19.46) (0.32–65.58), followed by radiography technologists (14.7 ± 18.03) (0.4–157.2), and nuclear medicine physicians demonstrated the least dose (8.6 ± 10.5) (1.2–24.4). The results show that the extremity dose is well below the annual dose limit of 500 mSv. However, there is a wide variation in dose among the workers, underlining a need for careful assessment of working conditions to ensure safe practices for all workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-106155402023-10-31 Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study Erdemir, Rabiye Uslu Abuzaid, Mohamed Mahmoud Cavli, Baris Tekin, Huseyin Ozan Elshami, Wiam Medicine (Baltimore) 5400 There has been an increase in positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging procedures, and medical workers involved in PET/CT are at increased risk of occupational exposure. Data on extremity dose exposure are limited globally. The current study aimed to evaluate the occupational radiation dose for extremities for medical workers (nurses, radiographers/radiologic technologists, and nuclear medicine physicians) working in PET/CT scanners at 5 large hospitals in Turkey. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and Thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) ring dosimeters were used to measure equivalent dose values. Hospitals 1, 2, and 5 used OSL, and 3 and 4 used TLD. A total of 502 readings were obtained from 55 workers. In millisievert (mSv), the average annual effective dose for all workers was 14.5 ± 17.7 (0.2–157.2). A radiography technologist received a maximum dose of 157.21. Nurses received the highest average annual effective dose (15.2 ± 19.46) (0.32–65.58), followed by radiography technologists (14.7 ± 18.03) (0.4–157.2), and nuclear medicine physicians demonstrated the least dose (8.6 ± 10.5) (1.2–24.4). The results show that the extremity dose is well below the annual dose limit of 500 mSv. However, there is a wide variation in dose among the workers, underlining a need for careful assessment of working conditions to ensure safe practices for all workers. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10615540/ /pubmed/37904454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000035501 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | 5400 Erdemir, Rabiye Uslu Abuzaid, Mohamed Mahmoud Cavli, Baris Tekin, Huseyin Ozan Elshami, Wiam Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title | Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title_full | Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title_fullStr | Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title_short | Assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: Retrospective study |
title_sort | assessment of extremity dose for medical staff involved in positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging: retrospective study |
topic | 5400 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10615540/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37904454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000035501 |
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