Medical radiation dose and exposure
MEDIRAD project “implications of medical low-dose radiation exposure”: Enhancing the protection of patients and health professionals from exposure to low-dose medical radiation
... the medical context, to further develop risk models and draw operational recommendations for improving radiation protec- ...WP2: dose evaluation and optimisation in medical imaging; WP3: ...
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BETA-RADIATION EXPOSURE OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL
... the exposure can be limited to the tissue to be ...beta- radiation is reflected by the higher values of the beta-ray dose functions in comparison to the gamma- ray dose ...to dose rates ...
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Collateral exposure: the additional dose from radiation treatment
... to the superior edge of the wax mould. These can be seen in Figure 4.1. Additionally, this tape prevented wax residue on the Gafchromic film. Lead gonadal clam-like shielding is used at treatment to protect the ...
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Assessment of Radiation Dose for Non Radiation Workers in the Medical Field Practices
... the radiation exposure to ICU, PIC, NICU and all the studied areas resi- dents, nurses and all NRW accompanying the patient to radiological suites for diagnostic and therapeutic proce- ...Ionizing ...
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Radiation dose and image quality optimisation in medical imaging
... PUs is outweighed by the size of the problem 5 . Therefore it is imperative that all measures must be taken to identify avoid- able instances, where the risk can be reduced or eliminated. Unrelieved pressure leads to the ...
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Breaking the trend of increased radiation exposure to patients through dose monitoring
... of dose levels also helps to identify trends and prevent “dose ...Comparing dose levels between equipment allows medical physicists to routinely survey modalities to ensure that they are ...
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Buccal mucosa micronuclei counts in relation to exposure to low dose-rate radiation from the Chornobyl nuclear accident and other medical and occupational radiation exposures
... 1392 radiation workers and 143 controls in China demonstrated increased MN prevalence at relatively low occupational radiation doses (~50 mSv equivalent dose), and variation of MN prevalence also ...
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Pathogen germs response to low-dose radiation — medical approach
... X-ray exposure we used a specialized X-ray system for radiation ther- apy of skin ...The dose rate was of 227 cGy min − 1 , measured at a source—to- skin distance of 25 ...
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Cumulative radiation exposure dose of diagnostic imaging studies in breast cancer patients
... 2 Radiation Oncology, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan hospital, Republic of Korea ABSTRACT Background: Breast cancer is a common disease in radiation ...the radiation dose ...
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Cardiovascular diseases related to ionizing radiation : the risk of low-dose exposure (Review)
... of medical data, which was used to create the ‘Clinic’ medical- dosimetric ...gamma exposure was introduced at the beginning of 1948 and for internal exposure during the 1960s ...external ...
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Exposure of the Swiss population to ionizing radiation in medical radiology in 2013
... AUTOMATED DOSE COLLECTION A limitation of this type of survey is the collection of exam frequencies separated from actually delivered ...automated dose collection software (DoseWatch, ...
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Quality Improvement Guidelines for Recording Patient Radiation Dose in the Medical Record
... Table 1 . Fluoroscopically guided proce- dures are an essential part of the con- temporary practice of medicine. In general, the risk of patient injury as a result of radiation exposure during these ...
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RADIATION EXPOSURE TO EXAMINERS AND PATIENTS DURING THERAPEUTIC ERCP: DOSE OPTIMISATION AND RISK ESTIMATION
... Author: Medical Physics Department,University Hospital of ...the radiation dose during therapeutic ERCP, and to estimate the risk for examiners and patients, to compare the doses based ...
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X-ray radiation and the risk of multiple sclerosis: Do the site and dose of exposure matter?
... of exposure and MS diagnosis to look for the X-ray radiation when any MS- related symptom had not been started yet in order to decrease the risk for this misclassi- fication ...past medical events ...
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Tracking Radiation Exposure From Medical Diagnostic Procedures: Siemens Perspectives
... removed dose information from the Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) ...send dose information in the comment field of the MPPS data for most software versions Data format Example: (found in ...
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A Guide to Understanding the Implications of the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations in Radiotherapy
... an exposure The detriments to be considered include long-term and short-term side-effects and these must be weighed against the benefit and also must be compared with other approaches not using ionising ...
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An overview of measuring and modelling dose and risk from ionising radiation for medical exposures
... [36] Exposure of the digital dosimeter results in a voltage shift between the components of the ...the dose absorbed by the ...one exposure due to expense of the ...
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An overview of measuring and modelling dose and risk from ionising radiation for medical exposures
... [36] Exposure of the digital dosimeter results in a voltage shift between the components of the ...the dose absorbed by the ...one exposure due to expense of the ...
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Image quality and radiation exposure with low-contrast-dose computed tomography angiography of the lower extremities
... care dose option during image scanning, so there is no significant difference in radiation dose between the two protocols but a decrease of about 40% in the volume of contrast material compared to ...
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Radiation dose and protection in dentistry
... of medical radiation exposure to a level commensurate with the clinical purpose of a medical imaging task [73] ...of radiation protection, in that it identifies practices that are in ...
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